계사구문에 대한 비수문, 비분열 접근법

손근원 한국생성문법학회 2000 생성문법연구 Vol.10 No.2

Nom-Gen Conversion as a Spurious Phenomenon

손근원 한국중앙영어영문학회 2004 영어영문학연구 Vol.46 No.4

This paper provides a new interpretation of the so called Nom-Gen conversion phenomenon in Korean, which was very productive in Middle Korean. The purpose of this paper is to examine the status of this construction in Modern Korean and show that this phenomenon has become spurious in Modern Korean. There has been ample discussion of this phenomenon in Japanese and two competing analyses have been proposed so far-overt movement analysis and covert movement analysis. Althoguh some researchers argue for the overt movement analysis of the Nom-Gen conversion phenomenon in Korean, this paper will show that Nom-Gen conversion in Korean is completely different from that in Japanese, and hence cannot be treated in the same way. More specifically, this paper claims based on new sets of data that there is no such phenomenon as Nom-Gen conversion in Modern Korean and the examples which have been used to show the existence of this construction are just misinterpreted due to their resemblance to the normal NPs with a possessive NP in the specifier position.

On Scope Freezing and Counter Scope Freezing Effects

손근원 한국현대언어학회 2005 언어연구 Vol.21 No.1

This paper takes the topic of scope freezing effects (SFE) and shows that two parts of the SFE (SFE-A and SFE-B) can be given different status. Critically reviewing the recent works against the SFEs, this paper shows that the SFE-A is absolute, hence inviolable while the SFE is not, being subject to flexibility. But it will also be shown that the SFE-B is not randomly violated, but is waived consistently when there are structural motivations for doing that. The variations in judgments for SFE-B related examples among native speakers are attributed to the different level of leniency people have for the phonological cues not accompanied by structural cues.

작용역 경제성과 논항-비논항 대칭성

손근원 한국현대언어학회 2003 언어연구 Vol.19 No.1

인용구전치구문의 통사적 담화적 특성 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows를 중심으로

손근원 한국현대언어학회 2010 언어연구 Vol.25 No.4

This paper aims at illuminating the nature of quotative constructions by analyzing the quote initial quotative constructions in J. K Rowling's book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The collected data show that the ordering of the subject and the verb varies depending on the verbs. To account for this, it is proposed that the ordering of the subject and the verb heavily relies on the information structure considerations. Also discussed is the inversion possibilities of the auxiliary verb and the subject. Considering the two competing views on this issue, it is shown that there is no inversion of the auxiliary verb and the subject and the seeming inversion constructions derive from the Heavy NP Shift.

Deep/Surface Anaphors in Korean and Implications Thereof

손근원 한국현대언어학회 2015 언어연구 Vol.30 No.4

This paper aims at examining the anaphors in Korean and reveal their nature. Hankamer and Sag (1976) classify anaphors in English into two types on the basis of the diagnoses designed to tell deep anaphors from surface anaphors. No comprehensive study of Korean anaphors has been made so far from this deep-surface perspective although there have been some works focusing on the nature of individual anaphors. After the appropriate diagnoses for this distinction are chosen, the anaphors in Korean are divided into deep and surface anaphors and they are compared to their English counterparts. It will also be discussed what implications this deep-surface dichotomy has on Korean grammar and the understanding of anaphors in general. (Hannam University)

Constituency Where? A Note on Substitution

손근원 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.

A Constituent Deletion Approach to the Fragment Answers in Pseudoclefts

손근원 한국생성문법학회 2011 생성문법연구 Vol.21 No.4

This paper aims at revealing the nature of counterweight in the pseudoclefts by reanalyzing the connectivity and anti-connectivity effects from a new perspective. I basically follow den Dikken et al’s (2000) QAP account that pseudoclefts are Question and Answer pairs and that there is deletion in the counterweight position. But I depart from their account by assuming that the relevant deletion is a constituent deletion which applies after the focus movement of the focused phrase to the counterweight initial position. It will be shown that this idea can successfully accommodate the anti-connectivity effects as well as connectivity effects and can extend to the explanation of the new sets of data in pseudoclefts.

한국어 부정대극표현의 유형에 대하여

손근원 한국현대언어학회 2004 언어연구 Vol.19 No.3

This paper studies the types and nature of the negative polarity items (NPIs) in Korean. NPIs will be first classified into five types and then it will be shown that some types of these NPIs can occur in the various 'affected' contexts just like English NPIs. The discussion on the inherently negative words as a licenser of NPIs leads to the conclusion that there exists a negative complementizer in Korean. After establishing the existence of negative complementizer, the discussion extends to the behavior of slang NPIs in Korean. Significantly enough, these slang NPIs are also subject to the same type of locality constraints as other NPIs. A couple of conjectures are provided for the distribution and nature of these NPIs, leaving the exact licensing mechanism open to future research.

Do We Have Two Different Allows? - on animacy induced variations with allow

손근원,김정석 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 is interpreted as the target of persuasion. But Aarts (2001) provides interesting evidence showing that allow is different from persuade and concludes that allow is actually more like believe than 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 is [+animate], allow can take either the double or single complement structure but when the noun phrase is [-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. Keywords: infinitival