국어 연쇄동사 반복 현상

Serial Verb Repetition in Korean

This paper deals with serial verb repetition constructions and their various word order variants in Korean. The results of the discussion reveal that the underlying SOV hypothesis with a head-final structure cannot properly derive them but prove that the underlying SVO hypothesis with a head-initial structure together with the copy theory of movement can successfully derive them. Consequently, this paper strongly supports the copy theory of movement and helps maintain the universal Spec-head-complement, namely, SVO, order put forward in Kayne (1994). With the latter, head-parameter can be eliminated from the computation, thereby reducing computational complexity.