주제(Topic)와 주어(Subject): 영어와 한국어의 비교 연구 = Topic and Subject in English

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The Korean language uses a strategy of topicalization. The topic in Korean appears in the topic position with a particle `-un/nun.` It always appears clause-initially, or before the subject position. Then what happens to English? Does it have a topic? In this paper, I argue that English also has topicalization. The difference between Korean and English is that in Korean the topic occurs in overt syntactic movement using the particle `-un/nun` while in English it occurs in covert syntactic movement. In English, a topic does not move to the topic position, or before the subject position, syntactically. If an element in a sentence is a topic, it moves to the left of the subject, or the topic position covertly, not overtly. It means that the Korean topic is realized in overt movement while the English topic in covert movement.

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