비교언어학적 관점에서 조망한 there의 기능

Function of there with comparative linguistic approach: Based on English, Korean and Russian.

Questions about the function of there have been suggested by many researchers due to its specificity. There can function either as an expletive or as an adverb, in which case it is accented like an adverb and divides unaccusative and unergative verbs. This research focuses on these functions of there from the perspective of comparative linguistics with Korean and Russian because those languages use different ways to realize sentences with location information. In addition, we would like to support our thesis with the analysis of machine translations (Google Translate & Naver Papago) to show the function of there. As a result, with the exception of syntactical and phonological aspects of adverb there suggested by Kolln and Funk(2008), traits of there as adverb do not appear in phonological tests and machine translators’ output, and usage of there with indefinite particle and usage of there with definite particle do not show difference in speech and translations from English to Korean and Russian. Expletive there functions only to change focu