This paper deals with island effects from Korean that can be neutralized by the presence of overt resumptive pronouns as well as NQs (numeral quantifiers) and BPs (body-parts) within islands. I show that this phenomenon can receive a reasonable explanation from a re-exploration of island phenomena pursued in Hornstein, Lasnik and Uriagereka (2003). I confirm their Ross-type LCA-based approach: island effects do not result from movement, and movement from islands is permitted just in case a phonetically null trace does not result. Thus, resumptive pronouns are regarded as residues of movement just as traces are. I newly suggest that elements like NQs and BPs in Korean behave as a kind of resumptives, called pseudo-resumptives, in that they can compensate the phonetic gaps inside islands resulting from movement of their hosts. This also leads to a claim that an NQ or a BP forms a constituent with its host in Korean.
1. Introduction: Scrambling and Island effects
2. Previous Approaches: Base Generation of Scrambled Phrase and Gapswith pro
3. Proposal: Resumption by Copies of Movement, Pseudo-Resumption
4. Extension to Island Constructions containing Body-Parts
5. Conclusion
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