Unusual something

Kurokawa, Naohiko

OUCCL(Osaka University Papers in Comparative Contrastive Linguistics), 2025, 2, 53-63

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固定URL: https://doi.org/10.18910/103059

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タイトル
Unusual something
著者
著者名
Kurokawa, Naohiko
キーワード等
something
deviant use
premodification
placeholder
metarepresentation
抄録
This paper discusses what I refer to as ‘unusual something’, in which something takes a determiner and an adjective as premodifiers. It is widely accepted that the grammar of contemporary English does not allow something to take a determiner and be postmodified by an adjective. However, we frequently encounter ‘unusual something’ constructions, such as a great something and the right something. The two main aims of this paper are to describe the structural and functional characteristics of ‘unusual something’ from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives and to illustrate what ‘unusual something’ is. To achieve the first aim, I highlight the differences and similarities between the standard and deviant uses. For the second aim, I demonstrate that something in the deviant use functions as a placeholder or a metarepresentation of an antecedent element or the sender's thought that is not linguistically realised.
出版者
Department of Comparative and Contrastive Linguistics, Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University
収録物名
OUCCL(Osaka University Papers in Comparative Contrastive Linguistics)
巻(号)
2
ページ
53-63
刊行年月
2025-03
言語
英語
ハンドルURL
https://hdl.handle.net/11094/103059
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18910/103059
アクセス権
open access
出版タイプ
Version of Record
カテゴリ
紀要論文 Departmental Bulletin Paper
OUCCL(Osaka University Papers in Comparative Contrastive Linguistics) / Volume 2