A Critical Review of English Locative Alternation Studies : Proposal for Distinguishing between Alternating and Non-alternating Verbs
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Abstract
The locative alternation in English is a phenomenon in which a certain class of verbs, such as smear, causes an alternation of two syntactic frames (e.g., He smeared paint onto the wall/He smeared the wall with paint). An abiding research question has been identifying the differences between alternating and non-alternating verbs. Therefore, to address this question, this paper gives a critical analysis of three major English locative alternation studies by Pinker (1989), Levin (2006), and Iwata (2008), identifying crucial problems in their theoretical frameworks and providing reasons why they have failed to successfully answer the aforementioned question. Then, on the basis of Kawano’s (2009) analysis of the Japanese locative alternation, an alternative framework is proposed, which clearly identifies the differences between alternating and non-alternating verbs. Finally, to demonstrate the validity of the proposed framework, a further alternation is discussed, which can be accounted for when using the proposed framework but not when using the frameworks presented in Pinker (1989), Levin (2006), and Iwata (2008).
Journal
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- 埼玉大学紀要. 教養学部
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埼玉大学紀要. 教養学部 54 (2), 17-37, 2019-03
Faculty of Liberal Arts, Saitama University
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390290699791294720
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- NII Article ID
- 120006620316
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- NII Book ID
- AA12017560
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- NDL BIB ID
- 029645632
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- ISSN
- 1349824X
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- IRDB
- NDL
- CiNii Articles
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