知覚動詞feelの主語省略に関する意味論的分析

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  • チカク ドウシ feel ノ シュゴ ショウリャク ニ カンスル イミロンテキ ブンセキ

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This study discusses the subject ellipsis in English, revealing that a semantic factor such as "referentiality" of the subject has a relationship with the occurrence of the subject ellipsis, in addition to the pragmatic factors. To that end, two investigations using COHA (Corpus of Historical American English) were conducted. The first one is to investigate the change of grammatical patterns with the verb feel from the early 1800s to 2000s. The second one is to find grammatical patterns where the subject ellipsis frequently occurs. As a result, the former investigation shows that the patterns have chronologically shifted from sentences with SUBJECT-VERB-OBJECT to those with SUBJECT-VERB-COMPLEMENT. In addition, the highly subjectivized patterns where conceptualizers are not linguistically expressed (Langacker, 2011) have increased with the passage of time. The latter one shows that the subject ellipsis often occurs with the subject "it", especially "Impersonal it" (Langacker, 2011) after recovering the unexpressed subject based on the immediate and situational context. Considering the properties of vagueness which "Impersonal it" has, it is possible to say that "Impersonal it" has less information or lower referentiality. Thus, this paper reveals that "referentiality" of the subject has one of the factors which causes the subject ellipsis.

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