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Another Diachronic Perspective on English Tough-Constructions
Gwang-Yoon Goh 한국영어학학회 2003 영어학연구 Vol.- No.16
Goh, Gwang-Yoon. 2003. Another Diachronic Perspective on English ToughConstructions. English Language and Linguistics 16. 211-223. Ever since toughconstructions in English began to attract the attention of early transformational grammarians, there has been considerable controversy about the analysis of the syntactic and/or semantic relationship between the tough-subject and the gap in the infinitival phrase/clause. Although the type of approach that assumes no syntactic connectivity has long been favored by current syntactic frameworks, it is not clear whether this type of approach is a truly well-motivated position supported by sufficient empirical evidence. In particular, it has been noted that there is some substantia! evidence both for and against it. This paper attempts to provide a new perspective on the analysis of English tough-constructions by considering the insights from the diachrony of prepositional stranding constructions in the history of English.
고광윤 한국영어어문교육학회 2004 영어어문교육 Vol.9 No.2
Although the language of Geoffrey Chaucer as part of late Middle English has been discussed by many studies, among which David Burnley (1983) seems to be most remarkable, some aspects of Chaucer's language still need to be better illuminated for a more thorough understanding of not only Chaucer's work and language but also the English language in the late Middle English period. This paper examines the English negation of Chaucer's language, shown especially in his Canterbury Tales, and explains how negation is used in his work, focusing on the three different types of sentence negation and the uses of or and and in the scope of negation.
What Really Determines Case Government in Old English?
Goh, Gwang-Yoon 서울대학교 어학연구소 2000 語學硏究 Vol.36 No.1
This paper addresses the issue of what, besides grammatical roles or functions, determines the case government of Old English (OE) verbs by explaining what really distinguishes each OE morphological case. On the basis of the distinctions in passivization possibilities in OE, I propose an 'obliqueness hierarchy' among OE NP arguments, which results in an enriched interpretation of the case features of OE verbs, and then show that relative obliqueness plays a central role in the case government of OE verbs. I also explain many interesting examples of OE case government including the question of why a certain case is used for a preposition-verb compound verb when more than one case is logically possible.
On the Passivization Possibilities of the Prepositional Object in English
Goh, Gwang-Yoon The Korean Association for the Study of English La 2001 영어학 Vol.1 No.2
The prepositional object (PO) of an active sentence in English can sometimes be passivized, becoming the subject of the corresponding passive sentence. In particular, the verb (V) and preposition (P) in the English prepositional passive (P-Passive) are assumed to be reanalyzed to form a single structural unit, giving the status of a verbal object to the PO to be passivized. However, not every V+P sequence can undergo reanalysis, permitting the passivization of POs. Thus, we have to explain what licenses the reanalysis of V and p. resulting in an acceptable P-Passive sentence. In this paper, I will identify the factors which determine the passivization possibilities of POs and explain how they interact with one another. The results of this study will illustrate how formal and functional factors work together to form a major syntactic construction and to determine its grammaticality and acceptability.
Using Function Keywords to Characterize the Language of Three Northeast Asian English Newspapers
Gwang Yoon Goh 한국영어학학회 2016 영어학연구 Vol.22 No.3
Although both the unity and diversity of English varieties are important for understanding the cross-cultural and international contextualization of the English language, the research into regional and national varieties of English has mostly focused on the analysis of variety-specific features. As a consequence, despite the richness of the findings about the Asian Englishes used in China, Japan, and Korea, not much is known about their shared characteristic linguistic features. This paper aims to rectify this lack by examining the overlapping function keywords from a corpus of Northeast Asian English newspaper editorials in order to identify the distinctive lexico-grammatical features they share and explain the factors behind them. The results indicate that along with a number of variety-specific features, these three English varieties have developed an interesting set of common lexico-grammatical features. The nonnativeness of these features can best be explained on the basis of certain linguistic and sociocultural characteristics that the three Northeast Asian languages share that have been transferred into these regional varieties of English.
Choosing a Reference Corpus for Keyword Calculation
Gwang-Yoon Goh 경희대학교 언어정보연구소 2011 언어연구 Vol.28 No.1
Keywords, which are known to provide a useful way to characterize a text, are usually calculated using two word lists, one from the study corpus (SC) and the other from the reference corpus (RC). Although this notion of keywords has attracted great attention and been employed in many corpus-based language studies, the issue of what constitutes a good or appropriate RC has been left largely untouched, although an RC is generally expected to be larger in size than the SC. This paper looks into how different factors associated with the RC affect the outcome of the keyword calculation of a given SC. The results indicate that genre and diachrony are more important factors to consider than other factors when choosing an RC, especially in that the differences in these two factors, unlike those in other factors such as corpus size and varietal difference, bring about a statistically significant difference in the number of the keywords. Despite the possible effects that the size and composition of the RCs can have on keyword calculation and resulting differences in keyword results, however, keyword analysis is very robust and keywords can be plausible indicators of aboutness, regardless of the RC one chooses. Thus, the aboutness of a text should be interpreted with its possible diversity caused by the use of different RCs in mind.