17.2784, Diss: Syntax: Lee: 'The Korean Internally-Headed Relative Clause Co...'

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Date: 26-Sep-2006
From: Jeongrae Lee < realmong at gmail.com >
Subject: The Korean Internally-Headed Relative Clause Construction: Its morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects 

	
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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:04:43
From: Jeongrae Lee < realmong at gmail.com >
Subject: The Korean Internally-Headed Relative Clause Construction: Its morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects 
 


Institution: University of Arizona 
Program: Department of Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2006 

Author: Jeongrae Lee

Dissertation Title: The Korean Internally-Headed Relative Clause Construction:
Its morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax


Dissertation Director(s):
Andrew Barss
Heidi B. Harley
Simin Karimi
Rudolph C. Troike

Dissertation Abstract:

This dissertation investigates the morpho-syntactic and semantic aspects of
the Korean IHRC (internally-headed relative clause) construction, which has
its semantic head within the relative clause, the relative clause being
followed by the morpheme 'kes.' 

As for the status of 'kes,' I argue it is a pronoun, positioned under D or
N, depending on whether 'kes' stands alone or is modified by a
demonstrative. In either case, the IHRC receives the same semantic
interpretation as non-restrictive relative clause. 

I argue the relative clause contains a full clause including TP, exhibiting
a full range of tense and aspect distinction. I provide a morphological
analysis of the IHRC predicate, identifying the contribution of each
morpheme, and the status with respect to the root predicate. 

I adopt phase theory to explain the fact that the internal head cannot be
embedded within more than one phase boundary. An uninterpretable feautre on
C in the relative clause is checked against a matching interpretable
feature on the internal head--DP or the event vP--, and the index of the
internal head this percolates up to CP. The modified pro has the same index
as the CP and the internal head. An interesting syntactic contrast between
'kes' as D and 'kes' as N is that an island effect emerges in the latter
case. This is explained by adopting Johnson (2004)'s account of adjunct
islands. When 'kes' is a D, the relative clause is the same workspace as
the matrix clause, while 'kes' is an N, the relative clause is the separate
workspace.

For the semantic aspects of the IHRC, I noted when the semantic head is
ambiguous ebtween the subject and another element in the embedded clause,
the subject is always favored as a semantic head. This phenomenon can be
explained by the minimal link condition: the subject is the closest 
position to check the uninterpretable feaure on C, adapting Lin (2006). 

Also, split-antecedent reading and VP adjunct head readings are coercion
effects of event-interruption reading produced in certain circumstances
between the matrix event and the embedded event. 




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