Remarks on the Unified Approach to Obligatory Control and Apparently Similar Constructions

• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Jong Un Park
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제22권 제2호, 497~528쪽, 전체 32쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.05.31

영문 초록

The goal of this paper is to make some critical remarks on the unified approach to obligatory control (OC) and a couple of other apparently similar constructions in Korean. OC has received various accounts in the generative literature. Arguing against the previous approaches such as the binding-theoretic approach (Chomsky (1981)) and null Case approach (e.g., Chomsky and Lasnik (1993)), some studies have proposed to reduce OC dependencies into A-chain relations, getting rid of the control module (e.g., Hornstein (1999, 2001, 2003)). This line of analysis, dubbed the ‘Movement Theory of Control’ (MTC), has expanded their empirical coverage, arguing that OC into both infinitival and finite complements can be explained under the movement view (e.g., Boeckx et al. (2010)). Their claim has been extended by H. Lee (2011) to various Korean data, which range from OC into infinitival and jussive complements to raising constructions. Furthermore, she examines the possibility of applying the movement view to long-distance scrambling (LDS). This paper shows that although the MTC has some advantages in analyzing Korean infinitival OC constructions, the attempt to unify all the aforementioned phenomena under the movement view would run into empirical and theoretical problems. It is rather concluded that at least OC into jussive complements and LDS should be dealt with in different ways.

목차

1. Introduction

2. The Movement Theory of Control

3. Problems for the Unified Approach to Obligatory Control and Apparently Similar Constructions in Korean

4. Summary and Conclusion

References

키워드

Backward control finite control infinitival control jussive control long-distance scrambling Movement Theory of Control raising