• 영어어문교육
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.99-122
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• 2006

The purpose of this paper is to explain the meanings and uses of the English auxiliaries SHALL/WILL. The complexity of modern usage of SHALL/WILL has been one of the most disputable themes of traditional English grammar. The paper purported to address the study and analysis of diachronic and synchronic approach to the two auxiliaries. A general view of the figures of Fries'(1925) survey was added for further investigation. The results of the study showed that these auxiliaries express some of various modal meanings associated with the volitional or emotional attitude of the speaker without implying futurity. The findings also suggested that the use of SHALL in present-day English is restricted to non-volitional future with the first person but the practice of this use is also diminished by the expansion of the use of WILL, and the original meaning of WILL, 'to desire or wish', has generally been replaced by other verbs or modal forms. But sentences which seem to indicate futurity are often tinged with modal senses. Therefore, WILL/SHALL should be considered to act either as tense auxiliary or as modal auxiliary depending on situational contexts in which it occurs.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.175-190
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• 2012

The purpose of this article is to explain the meanings and uses of the English auxiliaries will morpho-syntactically, and answer the question of whether will is a tense auxiliary or a modal one. Some writers even exclude will completely from the semantics of the modal auxiliaries. They argue that the semantics of will is fundamentally non-modal and has only a few modal-like uses. There are some people who treat will to be semantically separate from the other modal auxiliaries. In the light of modal will, the semantics of will basically remains anchored in volition because the lack of required speaker subjectivity, but has undergone so much semantic bleaching that it may also express future time without volition. On the other hand, the semantics of will in the exclusionist view is erroneous and that its semantics is in fact closely related to the semantics of the other modals. This view reinforces the argument that the morpho-syntactic kinship of will, can, may and must also reflects semantic kinship. It is suggested that all the modal auxiliaries show that the correspondence relation is non-verified but potential. And the specific place that will holds is that the correspondence is unverified at the time of utterance but will turn out to become verified. The overall conclusion is that idiosyncratic morpho-syntax shared by the modals reflects the semantics and pragmatics of the English modal auxiliaries and is forced also to include will.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.115-121
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• 2020

본 연구는 -ly 부사의 역사적 발달, 즉 문법화 과정을 통해 영어 -ly 부사출현에 관한 연구에 목표를 둔다. 이원화된 (일차적 & 이차적) 문법화 관점에서 고대영어의 형용사화 접사 -lic이 중세영어시기에 부사화 접사 -ly로 변화한 것은 일차적 문법화이며 연속적으로 동사구부사인 태도부사가 문법적 자질인 양태성[+modal]과 시제자질[+tense]을 습득하여 TP 영역의 문장부사로 변화가 일어난 문법화 과정은 이차적 문법화라고 정의한다. 이차적 문법화란 어휘항목에 바로 문법화가 적용되는 것이 아니고 이미 문법화가 일어난 통사형태적 표지의 재분석이 일어나는 것이다([어휘범주 → 문법기능범주1 → 문법기능범주2]). 부사화의 과정에서 형용사화 접사 -lic이 부사화 접사 -ly로 범주변화가 일어나는 일차적 문법화과정(형용사 → 태도부사)을 거친 후 태도부사는 이차적 문법화의 과정을 거쳐 새로운 문법적 기능인 시제와 양태성을 갖게 되고 이러한 이차적 문법화(태도부사 → 문장부사)의 결과가 문장부사의 출현으로 나타났다.

• 논리연구
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.45-59
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• 2013

타카시 야기사와는 그의 저서 Worlds and Individuals: Possible and Otherwise에서 양상실재론에 대한 중요한 반론들에 대해 자신의 이론이 루이스의 이론보다 더 성공적으로 재반박할 수 있다는 것을 보임으로써 자신의 이론이 더 낫다고 주장한다. 특히 그는 자신이 양상 시제(modal tenses)를 도입함으로써 양상실재론에 대한 중요한 반론들에 대해 균일한 방식으로 재반박할 수 있다고 주장한다. 이 논문에는 나는 루이스 역시 현실 세계에서의 존재와 가능세계에서의 존재를 구별함으로써 야기사와와 동일한 방식으로 피콕의 반론에 대해 재반박할 수 있다는 것을 보이고, 반 인와겐에 대한 야기사와의 재반박은 성공적이지 않다는 것을 보인다. 결론적으로 나는 야기사와는 자신의 이론이 루이스의 이론보다 더 낫다는 것을 보이는데 실패했다고 주장한다.

• 한국언어정보학회지:언어와정보
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.33-52
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• 2014

This paper proposes a unified structural account of some instances of the English Modals and Semi-auxiliaries. The classification and the syntactic/structural description of the English Modal auxiliary verbs and verb-related elements have long been the center for many proposals in the history of generative syntax. According to van Gelderen (1993) and Lightfoot (2002), it was sometime around 1380 that the Tense-node (T) appeared in the phrasal structures of the English language, and the T-node is under which the English Modal auxiliaries occupy. Closely related is the existing evidence that English Modals were used as main verbs up to the early sixteenth century (Lightfoot 1991, Han 2000). This paper argues for a bi-clausal approach to English Modal auxiliaries with the infinitival particle 'to' such as 'ought to' 'used to' and 'dare (to)' 'need (to)', etc. and Semi-auxiliaries including 'be to' and 'have to'. More specifically, 'ought' in 'ought to' constructions, for instance, undergoes V-to-T movement within the matrix clause, just like 'HAVEAux' and all instances of 'BE', whereas 'to' occupies the T position of the embedded complement clause. By proposing the bi-clausal account, Radford's (2004, 2009) problems can be solved. Further, the historical motivation for the account takes a stance along with Norde (2009) and Brinton & Traugott (2005) in that Radford's (2004, 2009) syncretization of the two positions of the infinitival particle 'to' is no different from the 'boundary loss' in the process of Grammariticalization. This line of argument supports Krug's (2011), and in turn Bolinger's(1980) generalization on Auxiliaryhood, while providing a novel insight into Head movement of V-to-T in Present Day English.

• 한국어학
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• 제74권
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• pp.1-24
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• 2017

This paper investigated -eullanjira sentence as a kind of construction of the Southwestern dialect in Korea. Five informants were selected to form the main corpus of -eullanjira. Through analyzing the corpus, its semantic, syntactic and morphological characteristics were figured out. Firstly, a view of construction grammar was adopted to capture the semantic and syntactic characteristics of -eullanjira. The construction of -eullanjira was established as "Xdo Yeullanjira Z". Syntactically, -do was found to be a common auxiliary particle, which allowed nouns, adverbs, verbs and adjectives to appear at the position of X, while only verbs and adjectives could appear at the position of Y. Subject-honorific, causative and passive prefinal endings could coexist with Y, while tense and modal prefinal endings could not. Z was an embedded clause, which had the semantic feature of [-DOUBT], meaning 'it should be done undoubtedly'. The formation of -eullanjira was next examined both diachronically and synchronically. It was found there was a conjuntive ending of Middle Korean, corresponding -eullanjira, namely, -landai. Finally, -eullanjira was newly analyzed as [[-eulla-]+[-n-ji-ra]].