호감동사보문에 관한 연구 - 동사 like와 love를 중심으로

Abstract

Abstract

A Study on Liking-Verbs Complement Constructions: Centering on Verbs like and love

Hyangyoun Park Advisor: Prof. Namgeun Lee Ph.D. Major in English Language Education Graduate School of Education Chosun University

The thesis is an attempt to describe and analyse complement constructions of liking-verbs . It is generally known that verbs like and love can have both -ing and to-infinitive complement constructions as same meaning. However, this study finds out the difference of using them as complement constructions. The examination of usage carried out in this study has led to a refinement of the intuitions of grammarians concerning verbs of liking, in particular those of Bladon (1968). The purely syntactic criteria proposed to account for the choice of complement with liking-verbs have been shown to be inadequate, the relevant factors governing complement usage being rather semantic. There are also some different features between -ing and to-infinitive constructions. According to Duffley (2000)'s study, it is proved that -ing is a direct objective construction of verbs while to-infinitive is a preposition phrase. A sentence with -ing complement construction can be changed into not only passive voice but also pseudo-cleft sentence, but one with to- infinitive can't. -ing complement constructions can also be substituted for pronoun, it. However, to-infinitive can be substituted for not pronoun but to. These features proved that -ing complement is a noun phrase but to-infinitive isn't. Consequently it is not surprising that verbs such as like and love are capable of evoking both an ‘enjoyment’ sense and a ‘desire/inclination’ sense. Nor is it surprising that it should be the verbs like and love which possess this potential. Verbs with -ing complement construction implicate the sense of ‘enjoyment’ whereas verbs with to-infinitive complement construction has the notion of ‘desire’, which shows that like and love can have different meaning by being followed by either -ing or to-infinitive.