[+/-Focus]/Subject Prominence, Feature Inheritance and the EPP

• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Yeun-Jin Jung
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제19권 제1호, 167~194쪽, 전체 28쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2009.02.28

영문 초록

Miyagawa (2005, 2006, forthcoming) suggests that differences between "agreement" languages and "agreement-less" languages stem from different parametric valuation of a super feature (Fs) on C either as Φ -feature agreement or as focus agreement. A language like Korean, however, constitutes an interesting example in that it employs not only Φ-feature agreement but also focus and topic agreement, as essential agreement features to derive the mixed properties of subject prominence, focus prominence, and topic prominence. Grounded on these Korean facts, I will argue that languages cannot be strictly divided into "agreement" languages and "agreement-less" languages, and that the apparent differences in the aspects of agreement are due to the interplay of feature inheritance and EPP parametrization.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Person/Number Features and Subject Prominence

3. [-Focus] Feature and Topic Prominence

4. [+Focus] Feature and Focus Prominence

5. Conclusion

References

키워드

Φ-features [-focus] [+focus] agreement subject-prominence focus-prominence topic-prominence language typology C-to-T feature inheritance EPP parametrization