tough construction in Pollard and Sag 1994

[Sun-Hee Lee]

Hi,

I worked on Korean tough constructions and wrote the following two papers.
(One of them was presented in HPSG 2002 conference.)

Lee, S-H (2002) Unbounded dependency in Korean Tough constructions,
Proceedings of the 2002 LSK pp. 427-439. (It is also available at
web.kyunghee.ac.kr/~lsk2002. )

Lee, S-H (2002) Korean Tough Constructions and Double Nominative
Constructions. www.kyunghee.ac.kr/~hpsg2002. (Only the abstract is
available in this address and the paper will be available sometime soon
through HPSG-02 online proceedings.)

It may be interesting to look at Chae (1998) which discusses tough and
compartive constructions in English and Korean.

Chae H-R(1998) A Comparative Analysis of tough and comparative
constructions in English and Korean. Language Research 34.1 pp.33-71.


Sun-Hee

Linguistics Department
The Ohio-State University
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On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, incheol wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> In Pollard and Sag (1994; p 167, footnote 8), it is assumed that the syntactic subject of the tough construction is assigned a semantic role by the adjective. Although they gave some pieces of evidence, I am not sure that those are sufficient for the argument that the subject of the tough construction is the semantic argument of the tough (easy) class verbs. Intuitively, it seems to me that the subject does not get any role from the tough class verbs. In addition, in Korean, tough movement is optional when the subject of the embedded VP is raised into the matrix subject position. I want to get some references to current work on tough constructions. I would appreciate any information on this topic.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Incheol Choi
>
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