영어 강변화 동사의 모음전환 연구

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The verbal ablaut in English strong verbs is the result of the inflection to the past tense. On this paper I look into the ablaut phenomenon in strong verbs existing in contemporary English. I find out what kinds of verbs are classified as strong and whether the ablaut could be a realization of a certain morpheme rather than the verb lexeme itself or not.
English vowel change phenomena generally can be divided into two large variations. One is vowel volume change meaning vowel lengthening or shortening through the process of assimilation, deletion, insertion and so on. The other is vowel quality change meaning of shifting tongue position backward or downward. We can recognize how vowel volume changes while going through insertion or deletion of consonants in the process of derivation or inflection. But we know that it's not easy to find the clear explanation about vowel quality change. An ablaut falls into the types of vowel quality change. An ablaut has been considered as an exception in phonological, morphological rule applies. The grammatical function of this kind of vowel switch is not unlike to that of inflectional process of the past tense of weak verbs suffix /d/ or /t/. It's difficult to predict the phonological explanation of ablaut phenomenon because the obvious environmental factors don't seem to exist.
I approached the ablaut in English strong verbs by analyzing its phonological process in terms of lexical phonology. Because we need the power of explanation of lexical phonology to analyze the process and the reason. I insist the strong verbs surely contain inflectional affixes to make past tense. So I regard the changed vowel of past type as an infix for past tense inflection. In other words, the past infix vowel is inserted near to the stem vowel of the present verb to be past tense and after that the present stem vowel is deleted to avoid vowel crash. To examine it, I used Constraint-based analysis, Optimality Theory. Optimality Theory makes this abstractive vagueness much clearer. I have created some constraints for vowel shift such as PAST(v) to identify whether the word includes past vowel infix, ALIGN-VL to identify alignment of past vowel infix, CONT-stem,V to identify whether the infix goes nearest to the present stem vowel and so on.
When verbs come to get through inflectional process, fundamentally there is no big difference between weak verbs and strong verbs in a sense. As a result of my study, I suggest that the ablaut in English strong verbs which have been known as vowel quality change come from vowel volume change after all. Therefore although the appearance is not the same, if some phenomena have the same grammatical functions with others, it shows a significance in the point they have something in experiencing similar phonological process in common. As for past participles, they function totally differently from past types. I feel further study about past participles to search more infix in the future. Past participles must be analyzed by being compared to adjectives due to the function.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 목 차
• 제1장 서론 1
• 제2장 영어 강변화 동사 5
• 2.1. 영어 동사 과거의 규칙과 불규칙 5
• 2.1.1. 규칙변화 동사 7
• 2.1.2. 불규칙변화 동사 9
• 2.2. 불규칙 동사 변화의 유형 분석 11
• 2.3. 적용 이론 16
• 2.3.1. 어휘 음운론 16
• 2.3.2. 최적성 이론 19
• 제3장 어휘음운론에 의한 모음전환 분석 27
• 3.1. 불규칙 동사의 약변화 27
• 3.2. 불규칙 동사의 강변화 30
• 제4장 최적성 이론에 의한 모음전환 분석 37
• 4.1 규칙 동사 37
• 4.2 불규칙동사 42
• 제5장 결론 57
• 참고문헌 60
• 영문초록 65