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A Study on the Use of 'Let Alone' expression: A Usage-Based Approach. X, xx-xx.

Mija Kim 1

1경희대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper is intended to describe the idiosyncratic aspects of the 'let alone' construction in English, clarifying the productivity property of this construction and to show that this construction displays the properties of prepositional phrase that denote the meaning of 'the comparison of degree', against the claim that this construction should be regarded as a coordinating conjunction. In the process of doing that, this paper classifies this 'let alone' construction into two types of construction, by investigating the external and internal syntactic distributions of 'let alone' constructions as well as the relationship between 'let alone' phrases and the main clause

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.