영어 ‘except’의 문법범주에 대한 재고

Abstract

The word except in English is often regarded as a preposition among non-native speakers of English. However, unexpectedly, this word can occur freely in constructions which after it take nearly all kinds of syntactic categories such as NP, PP, AdvP, clause, and even VP and AP, posing a serious problem with an analysis of its categorial status. This study examines the statuses of grammatical categories of except based on the revised E/S/P-Conditions proposed by Ahn & Kim(2013), which has revised Kim’s(2005) constraints on the felicitous use of exceptive but. The study suggest that based on the E/S/P-Conditions, the except can be divided into ‘except1’, satisfying the conditions, and ‘except2’, violating them. The findings show that ‘except1’ functions as a correlative conjunction as the exceptive ‘but’ does, according to Kim(2005), whereas ‘except2’, unexchnangeable to ‘but’, is used as a preposition or an adverb depending on the structural relations between ‘except2’ and the element right after that.