Minimizing Spell-Out Material in the Phase

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: 이정식(Jeong-Shik Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제52호, 213~240쪽, 전체 28쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2008.06.01

영문 초록

Based on the previous arguments for the SVO hypothesis and against the SOV hypothesis for Korean, I discover that languages attempt to reduce computational burden and thereby secure interface economy by minimizing Spell-Out material in phases throughout derivation. This emerges as the following broader generalization--minimize Spell-Out material as much as possible in each phase. I present an extreme case of this generalization obtained from Korean--by Spell-Out, don t leave anything in the phase until the last phase. It thus turns out that the generalization in Alexiadou and Anagnostopoulou (2001)--by Spell-Out, VP can contain no more than one argument with an unchecked Case feature--is one mild case on the Spell-Out scales, and that the EPP is a much milder one.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Why SVO, but not SOV, in Korean?

3. Why only SOV in embedded clauses?

4. Anti-locality and Clausal Object Movement to Spec vP

5. Minimizing Spell-Out Material in the Phase

6. Conclusion

키워드

SOV SVO NPI null Spell-Out phase EPP SSG computational burden interface economy