Apparent CP Deletion and DP Relatedness

( Keun Won Sohn ) 경희대학교 언어연구소 2012 언어연구 Vol.29 No.1

Sohn, Keun-Won, 2012, Apparent CP Deletion and LW Relatedness, Linguistic Research 29(1), 107-126. This paper deals with the apparent CP deletion phenomena in Korean discussed in Ahn & Cho (2009) first. Ahn & Cho claim that CP deletion is not allowed in Korean and the cases which seem to involve CP deletion are not really CP deletion constructions, but involve invisible pronoun pro. Although sharing the same view regarding the non-existence of real CP deletion, this paper deduces a different generalization from Ahn & Cho. According to Ahn & Cho, pro is allowed only when oven pronoun ku kes is allowed, regardless of whether there is a clausal DP counterpart of the apparently deleted CP or not. But this paper claims that there is a perfect parallelism between the occurrence of pro and the comparable clausal DP counterpart of the CP complement, This paper also provides an alternative analysis for the NP1 containing CP deletion cases, showing that deletion is possible in these cases only when the NPI and its licenser are both included in the deletion (or replacement) site.

Deletion and Right Node Raising in Korean and English

Keun-Won Sohn 한국생성문법학회 2001 생성문법연구 Vol.11 No.2

[Squibs and Discussion] NP ta-nun Takes Non-syntactic Scope

Keun-Won Sohn 한국생성문법학회 2004 생성문법연구 Vol.14 No.2

Staphylococcal Enterotoxin-Specific IgE Sensitization: A Potential Predictor of Fixed Airflow Obstruction in Elderly Asthma

Won Ha-Kyeong,Song Woo-Jung,Moon Sung do,Sohn Kyoung-Hee,Kim Ju-Young,Kim Byung-Keun,Park Heung-Woo,Bachert Claus,Cho Sang Heon 대한천식알레르기학회 2023 Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Research Vol.15 No.2

Purpose: Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin-specific immunoglobulin E (SE-sIgE) sensitization tends to increase with age and is known to be associated with asthma and severity in older adults. However, the long-term impact of SE-sIgE in the elderly remains unknown. This study aimed to examine the relationships between SE-sIgE and fixed airflow obstruction (FAO) in a cohort of elderly asthmatics. Methods: A total of 223 elderly asthmatics and 89 controls were analyzed. Patients were assessed for demographics, history of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS), asthma duration, acute exacerbation frequency, and lung function at baseline and then were prospectively followed up for 2 years. Serum total IgE and SE-sIgE levels were measured at baseline. Airflow obstruction was defined as forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1)/forced vital capacity (FVC) ratio < 0.7 at baseline and FAO was defined as FEV1/FVC ratio < 0.7 over the 2-year follow-up. Results: At baseline, the prevalence of airflow obstruction was 29.1%. Patients with airflow obstruction were significantly more likely to be male, and have a positive smoking history, comorbid CRS, and higher levels of SE-sIgE than those without airflow obstruction. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that airflow obstruction was significantly associated with current smoking and SE-sIgE sensitization at baseline. After the 2-year follow-up, baseline SE-sIgE sensitization was consistently related to FAO. Meanwhile, the number of exacerbations per year was significantly correlated with SE-sIgE levels. Conclusions: Baseline SE-sIgE sensitization was significantly associated with the number of asthma exacerbations and FAO after the 2-year follow-up in elderly asthmatics. These findings warrant further investigation of the direct and mediating roles of SE-sIgE sensitization on airway remodeling.

Deletion or Copying? Right Node Raising and Gapping

Sohn, Keun-Won 대한언어학회 2004 언어학 Vol.12 No.4

The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 12(4), 81-101. This paper discusses right node raising in Korean/Japanese and gapping in English, and provides a unified account for these constructions. Unlike Abe & Hoshi (1997), where a covert movement approach is adopted for both constructions, this paper proposes that overt movement, i.e. scrambling is involved in Korean/Japanese right node raising constructions while covert movement is involved in gapping constructions. It will be shown that this proposal captures various characteristics of right node raising which cannot be accounted for under the covert movement approach.

What can slang NPIs tell us about the nature and typology of NPIs

Keun-Won Sohn(손근원) 한국생성문법학회 2007 생성문법연구 Vol.17 No.3

  This paper focuses on a new type of negative polarity items (NPIs) in Korean and discusses its implications on grammar. This new type of NPIs, which I will call slang NPIs, are different from the well-known NPIs in Korean such as amuto or nwukwuto in that they can be licensed in more diverse environments and don"t have to obey the strong locality constraint. I claim that this non-local nature of slang NPIs follows if we assume that operator movement rather than movement of a slang NPI itself is involved in its licensing. It will be suggested that this analysis of slang NPls provides a way to distinguish NPI types such that local NPIs involve movement of NPI itself while non-local NPIs involve movement of an operator.

Do We Have Two Different AIlows?

Keun-Won Sohn,Jeong-Seok Kim 한국생성문법학회 2011 생성문법연구 Vol.21 No.1

When allow takes an infinitival complement, there is always a noun phrase preceding the to-infinitive clause. Many people implicitly assume that allow behaves like persuade when it takes an infinitival complement, interpreting this postverbal noun phrase as the affected theme of the main verb allow, just as the noun phrase following persuade in interpreted as the target of persuasion, But Aarts (2001) provides interesting evidence showing that allow in different from persuade and concludes that allow in actually more like believe that persuade. This squib shows that Aarts is only partially right and allow can take double complement structures (like persuade) as well as single complement structures (like want or believe) depending on the nature of the postverbal noun phrase. More precisely, it will be proposed that when the noun phrase in [+animate], allow can take either the double or single complement structure but when the noun phrase in [-animate], it can take only a single complement structure. Also discussed are the exact nature of this single complement structure and a potential problem residing in the proposed analysis.

Constituency Where? A Note on Substitution

Keun Won Sohn 한국생성문법학회 2015 생성문법연구 Vol.25 No.1

This paper examines the relation between substitution and constituency in some Korean constructions and provides an account that is well in line with the current theory of generative grammar. It is well-known that constituency is a key factor in substitution phenomena. But this paper presents several sets of examples that superficially go against this prevalent view. These examples allow substitution by a pro-form although the target sequence of the substitution doesn't seem to form a single constituent. It will be shown that despite the seeming non-constituency of the target sequences, in fact, they do form a constituent in covert syntax, thus rendering the original view of 'substitution under constituency' maintainable.

Topic XP-nun and intervention effects

Keun-Won Sohn 한국생성문법학회 2009 생성문법연구 Vol.19 No.2

This squib explores the behavior of so called contrastive topic phrases (i.e. XP-nun phrases) in relation to other A'-phrases. XP-nun phrases exhibit dual nature in that they sometimes induce intervention effects but not in other cases. The usual assumption that the contrastive topic phrases are licensed by a higher head Top is questioned in this paper because it doesn't provide any account for this asymmetry in intervention effects. Instead an alternative proposal is considered such that XP-nun is not the target of licensing but forms a kind of self saturated domain in which both the licenser (=nun) and the licensee (=a focus target within XP) are contained. It is shown that this proposal can not only account for the asymmetry in the intervention effects, but can accommodate unexpected saving effects in some focus constructions.

Some notes on fragments

( Sohn Keun-won ) 대한영어영문학회 2008 영어영문학연구 Vol.34 No.1

This paper examines fragment constructions mainly focusing on their scope phenomena. The comparison of fragment answers and full clause answers shows that there are both differences and similarities in their scope patterns. Unlike Ahn & Cho (2005) who argue for the systematic scope differences between fragment and full clause answers, I will show that there are few differences between fragment and full clause answers in QP-QP scope interactions while there are clear differences between them in neg-QP scope interactions. These differences, I argue, follow from the prevalent assumptions about movement, phase, and negation scope. (Hannam University)