주제와 주어의 통사론 - 주격 중출 구문을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This study offers an integrated analysis of Korean double-nominative constructions by reinterpreting them as outcomes of two independent but compatible processes: subjectivization and topicalization. Subjectivization is treated as a voice-like alternation that promotes a non-selected or peripherally selected element to subject position, licensed by the inflectional head rather than by lexical case assignment. Topicalization, by contrast, arises from the delimiting function of the particle {neun} and operates at a distinct level of information-structural packaging. Drawing on the distinction between sentenceme and allosentential variants, the study shows that these two mechanisms apply successively across diverse subtypes—including possessor-, locative-, experiencer-, and source-subject constructions, as well as weather and quantity expressions. Nominative marking on the lower NP is analyzed as a predicative complement. The findings indicate that Korean grammar allows flexible mapping between argument structure and grammatical relations, providing a unified account of nominative doubling and its information-structural behavior.