영어와 국어의 인상 구문 비교 분석

Abstract

본고는 영어와 국어의 소위 인상구문을 비교 분석함을 목표로 한다. 인상 구문은 두 언어에서 (1)과 같이 전통적으로 하위절의 주어가 상위절의 목 적어로 인상된 것으로 분석되었던 주어-목적어 인상구문(Subject-to-Object Raising Construction)(Postal 1974)을 가리킨다.

This paper attempts a comparison of the so-called Subject -to-Object Raising Construction in English and that in Korean. Unlike the English SOR which seems uncontroversially syntactic, 1 hypothesize that the ap- parent SOR in Korean is part of a broader process which is sensitive to both grammatical functions and discourse functions. 1 claim that, in Korean, the object of the higher clause is the discourse topic of the lower clause predicated by the semantically stative comment clause; the discourse topic is not restricted to grammatical subject, as evidenced by the multiple nominative construction. This paper proposes that the SOR should be a process which interprets the most prominent element of the lower clause as the object of the higher one in both languages, based on the classic claim that English is a subject-prominent language whereas Korean is a topic•prominent one (Li and Thompson 1976).