This paper is to discuss the syntactic and semantic properties of raising construction of English within the framework of Head-driven phrase structure Grammar(henceforth we call it HPSG).
We treat mainly the sentences of seem-type verbs and believe t...
This paper is to discuss the syntactic and semantic properties of raising construction of English within the framework of Head-driven phrase structure Grammar(henceforth we call it HPSG).
We treat mainly the sentences of seem-type verbs and believe type verbs which make raising construction. Both raising construction and equi construction have very similar trees because HPSG does not accept deep structure. But it is natural to say that there are some syntactic and semantic differences between two constructions as the result of the difference of properties. Lexical list and Raising principle can make us distinguish between two constructions.
Owing to the lexical list and Raising principle can see some characteristics of raising construction-expletive it as subject of seem-type verbs and as object of believe-type verbs. having no semantic role in the case of passivization of the belief situation, and having no complement omission observed by Jacobson(1990) etc. Furthermore we can also explain some cases not explained by GB framework.
Finally HPSG is going forward the lexicalist and constraint-based approach, so I rearranged seem-type verbs and believe-type verbs according to it.