Prosody Approaches to Passive and Causative Serial Verbs

Kyoungmi Lee 언어과학회 2021 언어과학연구 Vol.- No.99

Some serial verb constructions (SVCs) appear to have two types of morphological passivization/causativization in Korean. In one type, a passive/causative morpheme surfaces only on the second verbs (V2), and in the other, the morpheme surfaces on both the verbs (V1 and V2). As for each case, a distinct structure has been suggested by Ko and Sohn (2016) and Park (2014) without distinguishing between passives and causatives. This study examines the univocal passive/causative structure proposed by Kim (2011) and presents a different structure for each. Based on the prosodic properties of the SVC and prosody analyses of it, it also shows that the second type of the passive/ causative does not form a single prosodic unit, which is one of the crucial characteristics of the SVC.

Two Structures of Serial Verb Constructions

Kyoungmi Lee 현대문법학회 2020 현대문법연구 Vol.105 No.-

The purpose of this study is to investigate serial verb constructions (hereafter, SVCs), and provide how two verbs combine to represent a single event. Examining the argument structures of verbs, we propose that SVCs fall into two types: one is total argument sharing, and the other is partial argument sharing. These different types of sharing should have a distinct merger considering the argument structures. When two verbs in an SVC share their all arguments (internal and external arguments), namely total sharing, the serialization of two verbs takes place at the level of (categorial) head (head-head merger). In the case of partial sharing, the merger occurs at a phrase level (phrase-phrase merger): that is, after each verb meets their internal argument requirement. Previously asserted arguments about the relations between two verbs (namely, adjunction and complementation) are reexamined, and this study will employ the labeling algorithm to resolve their shortcomings.

Passive and Causative Serial Verb Constructions in Korean

Kyoungmi Lee 언어과학회 2021 언어과학연구 Vol.- No.97

The purpose of this study is to investigate two patterns of morphological passive and causative serial verb constructions. I am against the approaches in which the two patterns have distinct syntactic structures. Instead, I claim that they have a univocal structure based on the order of two morpho-syntactic applications: serialization precedes morphological passivization/causativization. I claim that verbs must be identical in their category (namely, vDO or vINCH) to form serial verbs. To this successfully serialized verb construction, a higher level of functional categorizer (vPASS or vCAUS) merges to create standard passive/causative SVCs. The consequence of this sequential operation is as if each verb underwent the morphological derivation. This is because the later merged functional head c-commands the entire serialized verb construction, supporting Distributed Morphology (Marantz 1997, 2007; Son 2006). The other structure, where passive/causative morphemes occur on each verb, is a PF variant of the standard SVCs.

Highly efficient RNA-guided base editing in mouse embryos

Kyoungmi Kim 한국수정란이식학회 2017 한국수정란이식학회 학술대회 Vol.2017 No.05

Highly efficient RNA-guided base editing in mouse embryos

Kyoungmi Kim 한국실험동물학회 2017 한국실험동물학회 학술발표대회 논문집 Vol.2017 No.8

Subject-Object Asymmetries in Right Dislocation

Kyoungmi Lee 언어과학회 2018 언어과학연구 Vol.0 No.85

In previous research, not much attention has been paid to subject-object asymmetries in the right dislocation (hereafter, RD) constructions, though many argue that RD patterns differ from leftward scrambling. This study investigates the subject-object asymmetries that scope and binding facts exhibit in RD. Manetta (2012) claims that right dislocation is an EPP-R feature driven movement resulting from a probe-goal relation. Following her lead, this study assumes an argument undergoes a right periphery (edge)-feature driven successive cyclic movement. As topics on the left periphery reconstructs, the right dislocated constituent, as a topic on the right periphery, shows reconstruction effects. All movement involved in RD (i.e., leftward scrambling and rightward dislocation) is done based on phase theory.

A Discourse Analysis of Students’ Reflections in a Critical Literacy Picturebook Read-Aloud Class

Kyoungmi Won 한국영미문학교육학회 2017 영미문학교육 Vol.21 No.1

This study is based on a read-aloud class picture book focusing on achieving critical awareness. It was conducted over the course of one month at an elementary school in Korea and analyzed how sixth-grade students responded to texts which raised questions about multiple perspectives, gender roles, and the status of marginalized minorities. The research was conducted on twenty sixth-graders in an elementary school in Gyeonggi-do. The read-aloud class was organized based on Four Resources Model of Reading and consisted of two sessions. During the first two-week session, students read a text on the basis of code-breaking and meaning-making practices, and during the second session that was conducted in the last two weeks, they read the texts through the prism of text-using and text-analyzing practices. In order to investigate whether critical literacy instruction developed critical awareness in the students, the students’ discourses in their written reflections on the texts were analyzed using Fariclough’s Three-Dimensional Model of Discourse Analysis. The results indicated that the read-aloud critical literacy class enhanced students’ engagement with the texts by enabling them to question the issues that were in play. In addition, six out of the twenty students demonstrated their critical awareness in their reflections. They produced critical literacy-oriented discourses including perspective-challenging discourses that questioned the authors’ points of view, individual-difference discourses, and positive-discrimination discourses, rather than conventional, conservative discourses. Therefore, the results of this study suggest that it would serve elementory school instructors well to employ critical literacy practices in their reading classes. However, further research is required in order to gain more information regarding the applicability of critical literacy instruction in the EFL context. The results of the study and their pedagogical implications will be discussed in detail in this paper.

The Effect of the Leader’s Anger-out on Organizational Members’ Silence Behavior

Kyoungmi Boo(부경미),Jegoo Shin(신제구) 대한경영학회 2018 大韓經營學會誌 Vol.31 No.8

Scope Reconstruction in A-Movement

Kyoungmi Lee 현대문법학회 2019 현대문법연구 Vol.101 No.-

This study explores A-movement reconstruction and asserts that A-movement reconstructs as A’-movement does, providing semantic type-based accounts in accordance with semantic reconstruction proposed by Lechner (1998) and Ruys (2015). The current proposal is that quantificational subjects leave a higher type trace <<e,t>,t> at any immediate landing site and an individual type trace <e> at their theta-position. Based on this hypothesis, three sentences that show no reconstruction effects can be accounted for. The components in the three sentences such as negations, degree modifiers and non-neg-raising predicates induce weak island effects for higher type traces. As resumptive pronouns in island conditions, an individual type trace <e> can obviate island effects, but a higher type trace <<e,t>,t> cannot.

Derivational Approaches to Binding and Scope Reconstructions

Kyoungmi Lee(이경미) 언어과학회 2020 언어과학연구 Vol.0 No.95

The purpose of this study is to explore and provide derivational accounts for constructions that require both binding and scope interpretations. Lechner (1998) introduces the Independence Hypothesis, asserting that binding and scope construals occur separately: Binding interpretation is obtained by syntactic reconstruction, and scope construal by semantic reconstruction. Presenting the hypothesis’s empirical problems, we will follow Fox"s (1999) syntactic accounts but not adopt his representational explanation. Instead, we will take derivational approaches to elucidate the constructions in question. Syntactic derivations can simultaneously reveal binding and scope interpretations. For this argument, we assume that once binding is successful, scope interactions can occur during the rest of derivation. A- and A"-movement in English and A-movement in Korean confirm this derivational approach.