영어 more and more A/A-er and A-er 구문과 분산형태론에 대한 소고

A Note on the More and More A/A-er and A-er Construction in English and Distributed Morphology

This article presents a Distributed Morphology analysis of the two anisomorphic constructions of comparative repetition in English, more and more A and A-er and A-er. The two structures mean “increasingly more A” but are different in form depending on the phonological form of the positive adjective bases. A short cross-linguistic survey of “increasingly more A” suggests that these constructions are based on the same syntactico-semantic structure comparable to ‘increasingly more A’. Based on this idea, the present article proposes a late vocabulary insertion analysis coherently deriving the two comparative repetition structures morphophonologically. It shows that the proposed analysis is superior to a lexicalist view and to a syntactic analysis (employing overt head movement of the A head) adhering to the surface morphosyntactic structure.