On the Long-distance Scrambling/Phonological Suppression of Adjuncts in Korean

Myung-Kwan Park,Ui-Jong Shin 한국생성문법학회 2017 생성문법연구 Vol.27 No.3

Park, Myung-Kwan, Shin, Ui-Jong. 2017. On the Long-distance Scrambling/ Phonological Suppression of Adjuncts in Korean. Studies in Generative Grammar, 27-3, 675-695. This paper examines the syntactic aspects of adjuncts in Korean, particularly when they undergo long-distance scrambling or phonological suppression. It is noted that, unlike argument elements, though apparently distantly scrambled, they cannot be reconstructed into downward embedded clauses. It is also noted that not all adjuncts but non-nominal manner or reason adverbials are disallowed from being phonologically suppressed in the structural environments where arguments in general are allowed to be phonologically null. However, the otherwise illegal reconstruction or recovery of distantly-displaced or phonologically silent adjuncts is made successful as part of the corresponding process for argumental elements that they adjoin to. In essence, we attribute the argument vs. adjunct distinction to the labeling processing that arguments and adjuncts enter into in different ways.

On English Verbal Anaphor: VP Replacement and VP Ellipsis

Myung-Kwan Park,Sunjoo Choi 현대문법학회 2017 현대문법연구 Vol.96 No.-

Myung-Kwan Park and Sunjoo Choi. 2017. On English Verbal Anaphor: VP Replacement and VP Ellipsis. Studies in Modern Grammar 96, 89-107. It has been noted that VP replacement do so is not allowed with verbal passives, though it is with unaccusatives (Hallman 2013). This paper develops an identity-based account for this contrast. Bruening (2016) recently reports that VP replacement is permitted even with passives in some restricted environments. Reformulating Miller's (2011) three options for VP anaphor (i.e., VP replacement and VP ellipsis), Bruening (2016) suggests two factors governing the choice of VP anaphor. Departing from Bruening (2016), however, this paper provides an identity-based account for the issue concerned, by demonstrating that VP replacement and VP ellipsis are derived in a similar way but they require different operational domains in tandem with the identity domain for VP replacement or ellipsis. Grounded on some key representative examples, we suggest that passives as well as unaccusatives require syntactic identity, but that they are distinguished in terms of the category where VP replacement or ellipsis applies. Furthermore, the difference between VP replacement and VP ellipsis concerning the size of operational domain can be extended to account for causative-inchoative alternations. In doing so, we argue that meeting the identity condition is crucial for VP replacement as well as VP ellipsis.

Not Voice but Case Match Matters in VP Ellipsis and Pseudogapping of English

Myung-Kwan Park,Sunjoo Choi 한국언어학회 2015 언어 Vol.40 No.2

Park, Myung-Kwan & Choi, Sunjoo. 2015. Not Voice but Case Match Matters in VP Ellipsis and Pseudogapping of English. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 40-2, 000-000. This paper develops a Case/case-theoretic account for what Merchant (2008) calls voice mismatch in ellipsis constructions of English. Merchant (ibid.) reports that VP ellipsis as an elision of smaller size VP allows voice mismatch, but Pseudogapping and Sluicing as an elision of bigger size vP/TP do not. However, Tanaka (2011) argues against Merchant's dichotomy in voice mismatch between VP ellipsis and Pseudogapping, reporting that voice mismatch in both types of ellipsis is permissible or not while interacting with what Kehler (2000) calls discourse coherence relations between ellipsis and antecedent clauses. Departing from Kehler's (2000) insight, we suggest that vP undergoes ellipsis in a resemblance discourse relation, but VP does so in a cause/effect discourse relation. Given the asymmetry in the size of ellipsis in tandem with discours relations, we argue that since Accusative as well as Nominative Case is checked outside VP, the VP to be elided can meet the identity condition on ellipsis with its antecedent VP as the object element in the former and the subject one in the latter or vice versus have not been Case-checked yet, thus being identical in terms of Case-feature at the point of derivation building a VP. (Dongguk University)

On the Identity of -Eykey in Korean Morphological Passives

Myung-Kwan Park,Euiyon Cho 한국생성문법학회 2018 생성문법연구 Vol.28 No.3

Park, Myung-Kwan and Cho, Euiyon. 2018. On the Identity of -Eykey in Korean Morphological Passives. Studies in Generative Grammar, 28-3, 513-525. This squib investigates the nature of –eykey in Korean morphological/lexical passives. We first argue that this type of passives derives from their causative counterparts. The former and the latter can have the same form of verb, but during passivization the zero passivizing morphology on the transitive complement verb of the matrix causative morpheme demotes the Dative -eyeky-marked Causee from an argument to an adjunct, besides the transitive verb losing the ability to value Accusative Case. The so-called animacy restriction on the subject NP with –eykey passives is ascribed to the requirement that it assume the Causer role in –eykey passives. In contrast, –ey uyhay passives are derived from the zero passivizing morpheme attached to the causativized verb complex, thus the matrix subject being realized by the particle –ey uyhay.

Cleft Sources for the Sluice and Identity in Ellipsis

Myung-Kwan Park 한국언어학회 2015 언어 Vol.40 No.1

Park, Myung-Kwan. 2015. Cleft Sources for the Sluice and Identity in Ellipsis. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 40-1, 87-106. This paper investigates the controversial issue of developing a cleft structure analysis for the sluice that derives from Sluicing or TP ellipsis. We show that there are some constructions that require positing different types of cleft clause as the underlying structure of the sluice. Specifically, Sluicing/TP ellipsis in the p ∨ q construction of English is shown to apply to the inferential cleft clause. In Spanish or Polish, P-stranding is fed by Sluicing, which now applies to the truncated cleft clause. In English, Sluicing also applies after a preposition pied-piping wh-phrase moves out of a reduced cleft clause. Although all these three cases involve cleft clause for the sluice and non-cleft, declarative clause for its antecedent, we show that the clause type mismatch between cleft sluice and non-cleft antecedent clauses does not impinge on the identity condition on ellipsis, because the two elements, found additionally only in the cleft sluice clauses, such as the subject pronoun it and the inflected form of be, can be analyzed as a clausal anaphor referring to the antecedent of the sluiced clause, or a semantically-vacuous element. (Dongguk University)

From a Metaphysical Point of View

Choe, Myung Kwan최명관 崇實大學校 大學院 1983 崇實大學校 大學院 論文集 Vol.1 No.-

An ERP study of ellipsis resolution in Korean

( Park Myung-kwan ),( Chung Wonil ) 한국언어정보학회 2018 언어와 정보 Vol.22 No.1

Park, Myung-Kwan and Chung, Wonil. 2018. An ERP study of ellipsis resolution in Korean. Language and Information, 22.1, 29-56. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the prediction/integration of syntactic structure during sentence processing, employing the construction that allows a TP ellipsis or Sluicing-like interpretation in Korean. To this aim we recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) from Korean native speakers while they read ellipsis constructions where the syntactic context allows or disallows remnants/ survivors (mis)matching with their explicit/implicit correlates in terms of Case/case (postposition) particle, also reflecting voice (mis)match between the antecedent and the ellipsis clauses. The Korean speakers were able to predict clausal syntactic structure on the basis of the antecedent clause and integrate it into the ellipsis site, thereby quickly detecting voice match/mismatch, as suggested by an ERP difference between matched and mismatched remnants/survivors neighboring the ellipsis site.

How Korean English L2ers Comprehend Exhaustiveness in English ‘It’-Clefts: An ERP Study

Euiyon Cho,Wonil Chung,Myung-Kwan Park 현대문법학회 2021 현대문법연구 Vol.109 No.-

Euiyon Cho, Wonil Chung, and Myung-Kwan Park. 2021. How Korean English L2ers Comprehend Exhaustiveness in English ‘It’-Clefts: An ERP Study. Studies in Modern Grammar 109, 19-44. From an L2 experimental perspective, the present paper aims at shedding new lights on the nature and the source of exhaustiveness in the two English constructions: (i) ‘it’-clefts; ‘only’-foci. We report experimental evidence that the cancellation of the exhaustiveness construal normally available to the constructions at issue gives rise to different processing costs. Specifically, we provide the results by comparing the ERP patterns that arise when the (marked) cancellation of exhaustiveness is processed in either ‘it’-clefts or ‘only’-foci. Our findings show that during on-line sentence processing, highly proficient Korean English leaners can discern the two different types of exhaustiveness, which in turn indicates that they can recruit different levels of linguistic structure.

Voice Mismatch Meets Neurolinguistics

Gui-Sun Moon,Sun-Woong Kim,Jeong-Ah Shin,Hae-Kyung Wee,Jong Un Park,Myung-Kwan Park,Wonil Chung 현대문법학회 2018 현대문법연구 Vol.99 No.-

Gui-Sun Moon, Sun-Woong Kim, Jeong-Ah Shin, Hae-Kyung Wee, Jong Un Park, Myung-Kwan Park, and Wonil Chung. 2018. Voice Mismatch Meets Neurolinguistics. Studies in Modern Grammar 99, 85-115. This paper aims to investigate Korean advanced L2 English learners’ strategies for ellipsis resolution during sentence processing. Ellipsis resolution is known to involve several stages of information processing from the initial step of detecting an ellipsis-licensing element by the parser to the final stage of integrating the ellipsis site with the information retrieved from the antecedent of the ellipsis site. In examining these steps, we have manipulated three factors: (i) TP vs. VP-ellipsis; (ii) two types of discourse coherence relations (resemblance(-contrast) vs. cause-effect relations); (iii) voice match vs. mismatch. We found through the ERP recordings that voice mismatch in TP ellipsis elicited N400, followed by P600, irrespective of discourse coherence relations. In contrast, voice mismatch in VP-ellipsis registered N400 only in resemblance(-contrast) relation, but not in cause-effect relation. These findings lead us to conclude that Korean advanced L2 learners of English seem to undergo the full sequence of processing stages required for ellipsis resolution.

고등학교 운동 선수의 일탈 행동에 관한 연구

정명수,임효택,임관철 조선대학교 사범대학 부설 교과교육연구소 2000 敎科敎育硏究 Vol.3 No.1

This study is aimed to verify what are the major factors affecting teenager athletics' deviant behaviors, being trained systematically and continuously at schools, and to present the basic material to prevent those behaviors and guide after the fact and foster young athletics at schools. 1. The level of deviant behaviors depending on gender showed significant differences in every type of deviation from public order, property, status, interpersonal relations, and seclusion deviation. Male sthletics were on higher level than female in all 5 types of deviation. 2. The level depending on parents' professions showed significant differences only in the type of deviation from status. The level was high on the professions of professional work, administrative work, blue color, sales,, clerical work in sequence. 3. The level depending on parents' educational level showed significant differences in the types of devation from public order, property, status, interpersonal relations. On the deviation from order the level was high on over post-graduate, high school graduate, and middle school graduate in sequence. On property, over postgraduate, middle school graduate, and primary school graduate; on status, over postgraduate, universities graduate, and high school graduate; and on interpersonal relations, over postgraduate, universities graduate, and middle school graduate, all in sequence. 4. The level depending on amount of allowance showed significant differences in all 5 tyupes of deviation. On the deviation from public order, the level was high on the amount of over ￦160,000 and ￦120,000∼￦160,000 in sequence. 5. The level depending on athletics's career showed significant differences in all5 types of devation. On the deviation from public order, property, and status, the longer the career, the higher the level of deviation. 6. The level depending on sport events showed significant differences in all 5 types of deviation.