영어 Much of an N 구문에 대한 말뭉치 기반적 접근

English much of an N Construction: A Corpus-based Approach.

Okgi Kim and Jong-Bok Kim. 2015. English much of an N Construction: A Corpus-based Approach. Studies in Modern Grammar 86, 47-70. English much of an N (henceforth, MOA) construction (e.g., It’s not much of a problem.) consists of quantifiers like much, more/less, enough, little and of-an-NP to intensify the indefinite singular degree NP. In this paper, we first review basic properties of the construction, focusing on the relation between the gradability of the NP and its predicativeness. In particular, after investigating authentic corpus data of the MOA, we provide a qualitative and quantitative analysis which allows a constraint-based approach in accounting for various syntactic as well as semantic properties of the construction.