영어 사역동사 make의 통사구조에 관한 연구

On the Structure of English Causative Verb make

This paper aims to present an analysis of the causative make. The English causative verb make is categorized as a syntactic causative construction. The causative make conveys different meanings with respect to the properties of the complement construction. make in direct causation constructions takes a bare infinitive complement, while make in indirect causation constructions takes a passive bare infinitive complement. The functional category ‘Voice(P)’ is used for a structural analysis of the causative make. In addition the two semantics features, [±direct] in matrix constructions and [±volition] in complement constructions, are adopted for a feature analysis of the two different constructions. First, [-direct] and [+volition] are suggested for indirect causation. The matrix construction cannot be passivized because of one of these features and its value, such as [-direct]. Second, [+direct] and [-volition] are posited for direct causation. There is a semantic condition on passivization such that make involving direct causative meaning can be passivized.