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Exploring VP/vP Preposing in Multiple Nominative Constructions mm
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- Issue Date
- 2023-08
- Citation
- Language Research, Vol.59 No.2 pp.115-144
- Keywords
- VP/vP preposing ; proper binding condition ; multiple nominative construction ; major subject construction ; nominative object construction
- Abstract
- This study investigates VP/vP preposing within the context of Multiple
Nominative Constructions (MNCs). In Korean, a verbal constituent can be
moved to the sentence-initial position. However, when an unbound trace is
contained within the preposed constituent, it violates the Proper Binding
Condition (PBC), rendering the sentence ungrammatical. The PBC effect has
non-trivial implications for the structure of VP/vP. This paper investigates
VP/vP preposing across diverse categories of MNCs in Korean to illuminate
their structural characteristics. MNCs occur in various environments, broadly
classified into Major Subject constructions and Nominative Object constructions
(Kuno 1973). Previous literature classifies the two types of MNCs into several
sub-types. An important question is concerned with the structure of the various
MNCs. This paper explores whether previous analyses can adequately explain
the (im)possibility of VP/vP preposing within each sub-type of MNCs. We
show that the (im)possibility of VP/vP preposing in MNCs results from their
unique structure, in combination with the PBC effect and many other syntactic
principles.
- ISSN
- 0254-4474
- Language
- English
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