A Construction-based Approach to English Appositives

English appositive;English afterthought;parenthetical;HPSG;Construction-based approach;820

인문대학 영어영문학과 ;

University:서울대학교 대학원

关键词: English appositive;    English afterthought;    parenthetical;    HPSG;    Construction-based approach;    820;   

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来源: Seoul National University Open Repository

【 摘 要 】

Kay & Sag, 2012). By using this feature, clause-medial afterthought appositives and clause-final afterthought appositives are both well accounted for.In terms of semantics, I propose a new semantic dimension to deal with parenthetical elements, inspired by Potts’ (2005) work. As a result, SEM now has two subdimensions: M-SEM (matrix semantics) and P-SEM (parenthetical semantics). I provide a detailed account of how such bidimensional semantics works within the HPSG framework, interacting with the constraints on the newly proposed types and the existing semantic principles. A direct consequence of my account is that the parenthetical properties of appositives are dealt with in semantics, instead of having to assume a non-standard syntactic structure.