Aboutness Topic and ECM Subjects
2
조회
0
다운로드
0
인용
0
참고문헌
키워드
초록
ECM subjects in Korean appear on CPs, which raise some non-trivial theory internal issues in the generative grammar framework regarding the Phase impenetrability condition (PIC) and/or the Chain Condition. These issues have been noted many times in the previous literature (Yang 2002, 2003, Kim & Kim 2002, 2003, Yoon 2003, Hong 2014, Park 2018, among others). As such, many analyses have been proposed to solve these issues, all with their own merits and disadvantages. This paper is another attempt at providing a unified analysis of how Korean ECM constructions are able to nullify the apparent violation of PIC and/or Chian Condition, as well as how and why Korean ECM constructions are different (or similar) from other ECM constructions. We argue that ECM subjects in Korean are aboutness topics base-generated at [Spec, CP] and that only unaccusative subjects can appear as ECM subjects as they do not receive the Nominative case during the derivation. Some immediate consequences of this proposals are that ECM subjects should be allowed with unergative and transitive subjects of non-finite clauses as they cannot assign the Nominative case within the embedded clause and that aboutness topics appearing in the left periphery of embedded CPs should be accessible to the matrix syntactic operations in other languages as well. We show that subjects of transitive and unergative predicates can appear as ECM subjects of non-finite embedded clauses in English and that aboutness topics of Puyuma, base-generated at the left periphery of the embedded CP are also accessible to matrix syntactic operations.
Abstract
ECM subjects in Korean appear on CPs, which raise some non-trivial theory internal issues in the generative grammar framework regarding the Phase impenetrability condition (PIC) and/or the Chain Condition. These issues have been noted many times in the previous literature (Yang 2002, 2003, Kim & Kim 2002, 2003, Yoon 2003, Hong 2014, Park 2018, among others). As such, many analyses have been proposed to solve these issues, all with their own merits and disadvantages. This paper is another attempt at providing a unified analysis of how Korean ECM constructions are able to nullify the apparent violation of PIC and/or Chian Condition, as well as how and why Korean ECM constructions are different (or similar) from other ECM constructions. We argue that ECM subjects in Korean are aboutness topics base-generated at [Spec, CP] and that only unaccusative subjects can appear as ECM subjects as they do not receive the Nominative case during the derivation. Some immediate consequences of this proposals are that ECM subjects should be allowed with unergative and transitive subjects of non-finite clauses as they cannot assign the Nominative case within the embedded clause and that aboutness topics appearing in the left periphery of embedded CPs should be accessible to the matrix syntactic operations in other languages as well. We show that subjects of transitive and unergative predicates can appear as ECM subjects of non-finite embedded clauses in English and that aboutness topics of Puyuma, base-generated at the left periphery of the embedded CP are also accessible to matrix syntactic operations.
참고문헌 (43)
- Ahn, H-D., "Functional Categories in Korean", The proceedings of the 3rd Harvard workshop on Korean Linguistics, pp.79~88 (1989)
- Chen, V., "The raising-to-object construction in Puyuma and its implications for a typology of RTO", Glossa : a journal of general linguistics, 3(1), pp.111~ (2018)
- Chomsky, N., "Lecture on Government and Binding" (1981), Foris
- Chomsky, N., "Step by step: Essays on minimalism in honor of Howard Lasnik", pp.89~155 (2000), MIT Press
- Chomsky, N., "Ken Hale: A life in language", pp.1~52 (2001), MIT Press
- Choe, H. S., "Discourse Configurational Languages", pp.269~334 (1995), Oxford University Press
- Choi, H-W., "Optimizing structure in context: Scrambling and information structure", Doctor, pp.1996
- Choi, H-W., "Japanese and Korean Linguistics 6", pp.545~560 (1997), CSLI
- Choi, H-W., "Optimizing Structure in Context : Scrambling and Information Structure" (1999), CSLI
- 정한별, "Exhaustivity, Genericity and vP-external Subjects", 생성문법연구, 27(3), pp.591~610 (2017), 한국생성문법학회[DOI]
- Chung, H., "Transitivity restriction in Korean ECM constructions", Transitivity restriction in Korean ECM constructions, 2nd Korean Applied Linguistics Conference (2023)
- Diesing, M., "Indefinites" (1992), MIT Press
- Erteschik-Shir, N., "The Dynamics of Focus Structure" (1997), Cambridge University Press
- Fox, D., "Cyclic Linearization of Syntactic Structure", Theoretical linguistics : Object Shift, 31, pp.1~46 (2005)
- Korean Linguistics 7, "Japanese", pp.1998, Han, C.
- Hong, K-S., "Subject-to-object raising constructions in English and Korean", Language Research, 33, pp.409~434 (1997)
- 홍용철, "한국어에서의 예외격(ECM) 구문과 자동 주격 분석", 생성문법연구, 24(3), pp.659~686 (2014), 한국생성문법학회[DOI]
- Jiménez-Fernández, Á. L., "A feature-inheritance approach to root phenomena and parametric variation", Lingua, 145, pp.276~302 (2014)
- Ko, K-J., "What is argument structure" (2000), Wolin
- Kratzer, A., "The Generic Book", pp.125~175 (1995), University of Chicago Press
- 김동석, "주격과 대격의 교체-한국어의 예외적 격 표시-", 우리말글, 26, pp.29~44 (2002), 우리말글학회
- DongseokKim, "Korean ECM Constructions and the Theory of Phase", 현대문법연구, (33), pp.47~77 (2003), 현대문법학회
- Kim, I., "Korean -(n)un, salience, and information structure", Doctor, pp.2013
- Kim, I., "Is Korean -(n)un a topic marker? On the nature of -(n)un and its relation to information structure", Lingua, 154, pp.87~109 (2015)
- Kim, Y., "A phase-based approach to ECM across CP in Korean", Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference, pp.205~216 (2002)
- Lee, C., "Contrastive topic : a locus of the interface–evidence from Korean and English", The semantics, 1999, pp.1, 317~342
- Lee, C., "Contrastive topic and", or contrastive focus, Korean Linguistics, pp.2003, 12[DOI]
- Lee, C., "Scalar meanings of the concessive (-to), the contrastive topic marker (-nun) and-man ‘only’ in Korean (and Japanese)", Proceedings of the 18th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, pp.217~226 (2004)
- Lee, C., "Topic and Focus", pp.151~175 (2006), Springer
- Lee, J-S., "Case alternation in Korean: Case minimality", Doctor, pp.1992
- Neeleman, A., "Alternatives to Cartography", pp.15~52 (2009), Mouton de Gruyter
- Miyagawa, S., "Agreement beyond phi" (2017), MIT Press
- Miyagawa, S., "Topicalization", Gengo Kenkyu, 152, pp.1~29 (2017)
- 박동우, "Not all CPs Are Phases!", 생성문법연구, 28(1), pp.127~142 (2018), 한국생성문법학회[DOI]
- Reinhart, T., "Pragmatics and linguistics : An analysis of sentence topics in pragmatics and philosophy I", Philosophica anc Studia Philosophica Gandensia Gent, 27(1), pp.53~94 (1981)
- Takano, Y., "Coordination of verbs and two types of verbal inflection", Linguistic Inquiry, 35, pp.168~178 (2004)
- The syntax of topic, contrast and contrastive topic, "Vermeulen, R.", MIT, ~, pp.MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 58 (2011)
- Yang, D-W., "Scrambling, EPP, and PIC", 2002 LAK Autumn Conference (2002)
- Dong-Whee Yang, "Optionality, Output Effects, and the EPP", 현대문법연구, (32), pp.43~68 (2003), 현대문법학회
- 윤항진, "ECM Revisited", 생성문법연구, 13(4), pp.685~ (2003), 한국생성문법학회
- Korean verbal inflection and Checking Theory, Morphology-Syntax Connection, "Yoon, J. H.", MIT, 251~270, pp.MIT Working Paper in Linguistics 22 (1994)
- Yoon, J. H., "Ambiguity of government and the Chain Condition", Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 14, pp.105~162 (1996)
- Yoon, J. H., "Rasing of major arguments in Korean and Japanese", Natural Language and Limguistic Theory, 25, pp.615~653 (2007)