영어 구성동사 유의어의 이분법적 대립 기반 분석

Abstract

This study aims at making the distinction between the four composing verbs compose, constitute, comprise, and consist of in terms of frame semantics and the binary opposition (BO) strategic approach, depending on the context. In frame semantics, the semantic relationships of subjects and complements are analyzed by using the BO features such as whole vs. part, open-ended vs. closed-ended and active vs. passive and so forth. The results demonstrate that a group of the first two verbs, compose and constitute, and another group of the other two verbs, comprise and consist of, are distinguished in the context by the BO feature whole vs. part. In the first group, the difference between compose and constitute is made by BO features like open-ended vs. closed-ended and active vs. passive. In the second group, the difference between comprise and consist of is distinguished depending on the length of the object NPs.