Possessor Ascension and Multiple Nominative Constructions in Korean

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Cheong Youn
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제17호, 67~94쪽, 전체 28쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 1999.09.01

영문 초록

A number of proposals have been made for the syntactic characterization of multiple nominative constructions in Korean, where the first nominal stands in a possessor relation to the second one. This paper analyzes the structures of the two types of these multiple nominative constructions, i.e. Possessor Ascension MNCs and Focus MNCs, within the framework of standard Relational Grammar, and argues that, despite their superficial similarities, these two constructions have different syntactic structures. That is, the first nominal in Possessor Ascension MNCs is an ascended final subject, while the first nominal in Focus MNCs is a focused nominal. In order to justify this analysis, this paper shows that each nominative-marked nominal in both types of MNCs behaves differently with respect to several syntactic phenomena which make crucial reference to subjecthood.

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Abstract

I. Introduction

II. Possessor Ascension

III. Possessor Ascension MNCs

IV. Focus MNCs

V. Summary and Conclusion

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