말뭉치 자료에 근거한 ‘是…的’ 분열구문의 유형과 동사의 상황유형 고찰

Abstract

Based on the corpus data, this paper analyzed various focus constructions of the cleft sentence ‘Shi…De’. The cleft sentences extracted from corpus data are classified into three major types as ‘O+Shi+XP+VP’, ‘S+Shi+XP+VP’, and ‘Shi+XP+VP’. According to the results of this analysis, the verbs with stronger feature of telicity and weaker feature of duration, can appear more freely in the cleft construction. In other words, the factors affecting the interpretation of the sentence with ‘Shi…De’ as a cleft construction are the two features, telicity and duration of the verbs. When a verb contains the feature of [+telic], it means that the internal structure of the verb necessarily includes a natural endpoint. The actions that these verbs mean are likely to be recognized as individual events. Therefore, when a telic verb appears in the form of ‘Shi…De’, it is always easily recognized as a single event that occurred in the past. On the other hand, when a verb contains the feature of [-telic], it does not include a natural endpoint, and except for non-durative active verbs that have no feature of duration, all include a certain duration section. The action that these verbs mean is not a single event, but is more likely to be recognized as a repetitive and habitual event. Therefore, the more durative feature a verb have, the more restricted the sentences is in its interpretation as a cleft construction.