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On the Syntax of Unusual Subjects: Exceptional Case Marking Constructions
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- Issue Date
- 2023-08
- Citation
- Language Research, Vol.59 No.2 pp.93-114
- Keywords
- ECM ; relator phrase (RP) ; phase ; null operator ; predication
- Abstract
- This study aims to explain the mixed properties of the ECM subject in Korean
and Mongolian in terms of the Relator Phrase (RP) analysis proposed by den
Dikken (2007, 2017a, 2017b). The embedded subject in the Korean ECM is
known to exhibit both higher/lower and A/A' properties. How can an XP have
several locus properties at the same time? To address this question, the present
study proposes the following insights: Predication relations constitute an
inherent RP phase (den Dikken 2007, 2017a, 2017b; Wurmbrand, 2021); The
ECM subject is base-generated in the Spec-RP position in Korean, which is an
A-position by definition; R assumes a null state or becomes C+R if C is
elevated to R; A null operator (O) binds the overt/covert pronoun in the
embedded TP; The ECM subject is related to the embedded CP in terms of
predication, akin to Browning's (1991) perspective. The proposed analysis
explains the Korean ECM and its difference from Mongolian. The proposal
resolves the ongoing discourse on whether the ECM subject moves or stays in
situ. Additionally, significant similarities between ECM construction and the
multiple nominative constructions (MNC) in Korean are also explained in terms
of RP, a correlation previously understudied in previous studies.
- ISSN
- 0254-4474
- Language
- English
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