국어의 어순 뒤섞기 현상과 형상성

Scrambling and Configurationality in Korean

The aim of this paper is to observe scrambling in Korean and suggest the configurationality of Korean. Scrambling reflects the free word order in Korean because Korean has case markers such as ‘i/ga'(‘이/가’), ‘eul/reul’ (을/를). This phenomenon can be classified into the local scrambling and the long-distance scrambling with syntactic and semantic restrictions. Also, this has the pragmatic functions such as topic and focus. The restrictions and functions of the Korean scrambling are related to the configurationality of Korean. Based onthe Korean scrambling and its restrictions and functions, we can suggest that the Korean syntax has the flat VP structure with Topic slot and Focus slotin the upper nodes. This structure shows that the Korean syntax has the very close relation with pragmatic feature.