A Critical Survey of GB/Minimalist Research on Case and A-Chains in Korean

Abstract

Korean possesses a rich and interesting Case system whose investigation sheds light on theoretical treatments of Case and related phenomena. For this reason, constructions involving Case-theoretic problems have been actively and frequently researched in Korean syntax. In this paper, we critically survey research on Case done in the tradition of Chomskyan syntactic theory, i.e., GB theory and the Minimalist Program.