格의 文法理論의 發展과 그 現況 = The Development of Case Theory and Its Current States

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The Development of Case Theory and Its Current States by HAN Young-Hie. The grammatical category 'case' has been troublesome in grammatical analyses, especially in the traditional grammar(s), since its forms and meanings are variable in many cases from one to another. It is the deep case grammar of Fillmore that case could be analysed more systematically in its forms, meanings and characteristics in terms of the deep structure of sentences. Fillmore's effort was very insightful but could not go further due to his failure in fusing its semantic and syntactic aspects neatly. However, his effort has inspired in the Chomsky's followers to delve into anew case, which has resulted in the development of case theory as a module in Government and Binding and ensuing Minimalist and Bare Structure theories, whereby the forms and meanings of the case from deep and surface structures to logical form have been lucidified to a great extent.
However, there are still a problem of how to account for the case assignment (licensing, checking-off, discharging) procedures symmetrical way. There are at least two ways of doing this : by government from functional and lexical catetories and by agreement between Spec-Head, establishg Agreement Phrase. Current explorations in this matter, mixe these two assertion more ofen than not to a certain degree. None seems to be absolutely paramount, and therefore further research on this matter is required.