문법성과 문법 모델링: 영어 목적어 외치 구문의 변이형을 중심으로

초록

It is a well-known fact that grammar modelling for the English object extraposition construction is never easy due to too many variations in the construction; nevertheless, there are at least 3 grammar models for this construction, such as Kim & Sag (2006, 2007), Kim (2008) and Cho (2010) in Formal Syntax. Though each model accounts for some subset of the construction data, they all seem to face empirical and theoretical problems mainly due to the difficulty of deciding the grammaticality of controversial data. Consequently, they have to hold somewhat different grammar models, which appear to be counter- intuitive. To judge which model is better among the 3 models and to see which is the most optimal model for the construction, we will provide statistical results of 21 native speakers' grammatical judgments for 9 controversial data, and we will discuss the factors that lead to the difficulties of modelling the grammar of the construction. Throughout this paper, we will argue that we must assume a larger set of grammatical sentences than previous analyses and consider various factors such as LP rules, redundancy, and intervention effects to postulate an optimal grammar model for the construction.

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