영문초록
Ahn, Seung Shin. “Syntactic Structures of Canonical Comparatives and Comparative Inversions in English”. Modern Studies in English Language & Literature 57.1 (2013): 167-97. This paper provides syntactic structures for the accounts of canonical comparatives and comparative inversions. I argue against the syntactic repair accounts by Merchant(2003) and for information structural approaches based on Selkirk(2005), Gergel et al.(2007), and Culicover & Winkler(2008). Adapting a feature-driven approach by Gergel et al., I propose that category FP is required for contrastively focused constituents and that feature [+f] should be assigned to the head of F and I. The category of FP and the feature [+f] show the interactions of syntax with phonology and syntax with semantics. The XP moved to SpecFP is pronounced with high pitch accent in the phonological component and it is interpreted as a contrastive focus in LF. (Korea National Open University)
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