-ee derivatives in English: Focusing on dual role of -ee suffix

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper argues three things : (a) -ee is morphological counterpart of syntactic passive morpheme -ed, following Oegglie(1988). Unlike -ed, -ee is supposed to do a dual job for deriving words such as sittee, whose base verb is stative and intransitive. -ee must absorb an external theta role only when there is any internal theta role, resulting in deriving a word to denote a person or a thing that undergoes passivity such as advisee, while -ee can not do so when there is none, (b) -ee English suffix is not sensitive to the transitivity of verb, but to the feasibility of having a dynamic sense of verb, which is acting as a base to -ee. It is because there are many -ee derivatives whose bases are intransitive verbs such as arrivee, and (c) the monopolic status of -ee in English for derivatives with patient reading is likely to lead over-generation, which is assumed to be inevitable for the sake of fewer constraints on -ee of our analysis compared to those of the previous ones and the over-generated possible -ee derivatives are subject to pragmatic contexts for their existence in actual speech community. The pragmatic context is to be assumed to function as a filter in the sense of Halle (1974) in order to allow over-generation of -ee suffix.

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