Some Asymmetries in Perception Verb Construction in Korean

• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Jeong-Shik Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제23권 제4호, 677~707쪽, 전체 30쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.11.30

영문 초록

In this paper, I argue that some extraction asymmetries between the preverbal and the postverbal embedded clause in the perception verb construction in Korean lead to the argument that the postverbal embedded clause is a real complement in this language. This thus constitutes one piece of evidence for the claim that the phrase markers of Korean underlyingly involve a head-initial structure, but not the traditional head-final structure. I also deal with asymmetries between perception verb construction and epistemic verb construction. From the theoretical perspective, a species of A-over-A condition and a Case-related freezing condition on (sub)extraction are shown to impose an underlyingly head-initial structure on Korean. The results obtained lend a support to Kayne's (1994) Universal Order Hypothesis. Consequently, it helps eliminate the head-parameter from Universal Grammar in conformity with the recent spirit of minimalism (Chomsky 2005).

목차

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Some Asymmetries in Perception Verb Construction

3. Analyses of the Asymmetries

4. Some Asymmetries between Perception Verb and Epistemic Verb

5. Summary

References

키워드

perception verb epistemic verb subextraction freezing head-initial head-final Universal Order Hypothesis