VPC의 최소주의적 접근

A Minimalist Approach to VPC

This paper aims to explain the nature of Verb-Particle Combinations in terms of the Minimalist Program. It is important to understand VPC's characters since EFL learners are often intrigued by their syntactic properties. VPCs have two word orders: the particle comes (i) between the verb and the complement NP or (ii) immediately after the complement. Haegeman & Guéron (1999) assume that the particle is the head of a maximal projection and selects a complement. Unlike prepositions, the particle does not assign Case. To assign Case, the particle incorporates to the verb and forms a complex verb. The complex verb can govern the complement NP through PrtP which lacks a lexical head. Their analysis does not account for the fact that the particle does not form a constituent with the complement and they have to assume that PrtP is invisible to government. Radford (1997) analyzes VPCs in terms of the Minimalist Program, adopting the VP Shell which was first introduced by Larson (1988). In his analysis, the complement NP is the specifier of the verb which is followed by the particle. The verb adjoins to the causative light verb and assigns Case to the complement. Radford's analysis does not account for another type of VPC where the verb and the complement do not form a subjectpredicate relation. I assume that there are two types of VPCs: (i) the complement is the specifier of verb-particle; (ii) the complement is adjacent to the verb and the particle is an intransitive preposition.