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The Emergence of Unaccusative Prenominal Past Participles in the History of English
Chigchi, Bai
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This article has reported a historical fact that past participles of unaccusative verbs in English were not available as prenominal modifiers until EModE and explained how they became available in EModE. It was argued that the condition that licenses past participles as prenominal modifiers was changed from 'the base verb must be a transitive verb' to 'the noun modified must be a theme argument of the base verb' and that the trigger for this change was the emergence of a large number of ergative verbs during ME and EModE, which have both transitive and intransitive variants, being theme assigners in either case. It was also argued that when past participles of the largely emerged ergative verbs premodified nouns in ME and EModE, it was possible for them to be interpreted as derived from the intransitive variant, which in turn made it possible for past participles of unaccusative verbs to premodify nouns, by analogy.
This is a revised version of the paper presented at the 32nd conference of the Modern English Association, held at Aichi Gakuin University on June 27th, 2015.
名古屋大学英文学会
The society of english literature and linguistics Nagoya University
2016-11-30
eng
departmental bulletin paper
VoR
http://hdl.handle.net/2237/00030358
https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/28161
0914-2266
IVY
49
41
65
https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/28161/files/ivy_49_41.pdf
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2019-05-27