Though Ernest Hemingway rejects symbolism itself, the basis of his work is symbolic technique So in order to comprehend his works it is necessary to analyze his symbolism This thesis aims to study biblical factors in the works of Hemingway and to show the relations between the biblical factors and subjects of his novels A biographer noted that Hemingway`s main characters sh..
Structural Case (ie, inherent Case) is associated with theta-positions, whereas structural Case is not (Chomsky 1981, 1986, Boskovic 1997, 2002, Woolford 2006), If inherent Case (which Boskovic assumes is assigned to elements in situ) is available only to nominals that the Case-assigning verb -marks, as is standardly assumed, inherent Case is excluded from ECM constr..
Early in his career, Ezra Pound concerned himself with the precise and succinct expression in poetry It was in some way a prescription against his contemporary verse that was too vague and decorative, and too much given to generalization His enthusiasm in the exactness and economy of expression in verse led him to initiate the Imagist movement in modem English poetry This pr..
The number of Korean students who are studying in English speaking countries is increasing and the expenditure invested for studying English abroad is enormous However, the quality of some ESL programs is not always satisfactory Recently, there has been a lot of criticism that ESL programs are often not beneficial to language minority students Some ESL programs cannot pr..
Studies of the SVC have been plagued by the annoying fact that the interpretations of SVCs are apparently so diverse as to defy a unified semantic account of serialization Thus, in most studies, the apparent heterogeneity of the interpretations of SVCs has led to fragmentation of serialization into a variety of subtypes, merely in terms of stereotypical examples, with no ..
John Ashbery brings about a wide variety of critical responses including ones contrary to each other This is due to the difficulty of his works, which arises from his characteristic doubleness his poetry mostly consists of normal sentences and familiar expressions while involved in uncertainty His readers are induced to expect a coherent meaning, but this expectation is on..
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between inflectional change and the development of the passive construction in English Most of PIE contains a set of verbal desinences called medio-passives, but no endings for the passive voice So at that time, there was an active and a middle voice but no passive The medio-passive inflectional category was used ..
The face-to-face oral proficiency English interview test is used as a requirement for various purposes including admission, placement, and achievement test in Korean universities It is desirable that more authentic and interactive speaking abilities be measured through the interview test Though the interview test format has been widely used in university English programs..
Sherman Alexie has been persistently articulating the agonizing lives of the Indian people on the reservation and realistically representing their world for more than two decades He points out the importance of Indians` discovering cultural and individual identity damaged and ruined by white prejudice and culture What distinguishes him from other prominent American India..
This paper investigates man`s illusion of science and technology in the novel, Deadeye Dick Actually, this novel dolefully celebrates the randomness of life, and also manages to hold horror, disgust and whimsical acceptance of Rudy Waltz who recklessly shot a pregnant woman dead Rudy Waltz, the Deadeye Dick, can`t help leading a tragic life as he doesn`t have a spiritual ..
Tom Stoppard is one of the most representative contemporary playwrights in England Arcadia, which is hailed as his most brilliant and fascinating play, is not only a story of two contemporary researchers, Hannah and Bernard, who try to find out what really happened in Sidley Park, but also an intellectual discourse about a variety of scientific, mathematical, and philosoph..
This paper examines spatial dimensional expressions in two languages, English and French, and extracts language-universal properties of combinational constraints which determine the combinations of the dimensional expressions For each language, we will respectively investigate spatial expressions for one-dimensional entities and two-dimensional objects Through the in..
This article examines two accounts of the development of second language (L2) syntax and morphology The Failed Functional Features hypothesis (FFFH) proposes that L2 syntax and morphology develop co-dependently (Vainikka and Young-Scholten 1998) and that the incompetence in producing accurate L2 functional features is rather a Critical Period loss of ability to gain ..
Larson (1988a) argues that the secondary object of the double object construction (DOC) is an adjunct In contrast, Aoun and Li (1989), Kitagawa (1994), and Stroik (1996) represent the oblique phrase of the oblique dative construction (ODC) as an adjunct This paper argues that any syntactic analysis which resorts to the last linear argument of the DOC and the ODC as an ad..
Canto is regarded as representative of the so-called Malatesta Cantos (-) in Ezra Pound`s The Cantos, which are concerned with the lord of Rimini, Italy, Sigismundo Malatesta (1417-1468) Composed of fragments from various documents about his life, the poem lacks narrative continuity owning to gaps in its paratactic structure divided into two parts Its former ha..