영어 부사의 연구 : 주로 시점 종접사를 중심으로 A Study of English Adverbs = A Study of English Adverbs

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The purpose of this paper is to clarify syntactic and semantic properties of viewpoint subjuncts of English-a subdivision of English adverbials. Quirk et al. (1985) recently introduced the adverbial category of subjects that had formerly been subsumed under the adverbial category of adjuncts in Quirk et al. (1972). they furthermore proposed to divide the category of subjuncts into the two large groups: wide orientation and narrow orientation, both of which contain various adverbial categories of English.
The following gives a brief outline of my assertion in this paper. Wide orientation subjuncts of Quirk et al. (1985) include viewpoint subjuncts and courtesy ones; both of them are markedly different from each other in a morphological aspect as well as in syntactic aspects, only having the comparatively wide range of their movability in common. Their classification of wide orientation subjuncts has therefore a very unsolid foundation.
The position of a sentene which English viewpoint subjuncts can occupy are roughly of three kinds, that is to say, the initial, medial, and final positions.
As a viewpoint subjunct has generally a smaller role than the other sentence element, it tends to be put at the least salient position of a sentence, _the medial position. The unmarked position of a viewpoint subjunct is, therefore, a medial position of a sentence, not an initial position that has been uncritically assumed to be so by most English grammarians.
If a viewpoint subjunct is put at the final position of a sentence with no pause or comma, it tends to have an adjunct reading because of the semantic weight of the final element of a sentence, which carries marked rhematic information.
Most viewpoint subjuncts are apt to occur in the initial position. This is because a viewpoint subjunct at the initial position is usually topicalized, so that, from the standpoint of discourse analysis, it functions not only as a smooth connecting element between the preceding and the following utterances but also as a topicalized, thematic element of the following utterance.
In this paper I also maintain that to Ernst's (1984) three semantic types of viewpoint subjuncts/domain adverbs, _the Specify-type, the Shift-type, and the Ignore-type, the Elaborate-type of viewpoint subjuncts can be added with reasonable grounds.