Chung (2012)에 대한 회답

Replies to Chung (2012): On Pre- vs. Post-verbal Asymmetries in Korean

In this paper, I give replies to Chung (2012), who discussed some prevs. post-verbal asymmetries in an attempt to refute Lee's series of work (2009, 2011, inter alia) on Right Dislocated Constructions (RDCs) from Korean. Lee contends that Korean is underlyingly head-initial and RDCs can desirably be derived under the single clause approach; Chung maintains the traditional head-final structure and supports the double clause approach to the RDCs. Through the replies, the current paper shows that Chung's criticisms on Lee's analysis are not really valid. And a closer look reveals that Lee's analysis can successfully deal with those asymmetries, but that Chung's analysis is rather problematic. As a result, the current work can still help maintain the universal Spec-head-complement word order hypothesis proposed by Kayne (1994) and get the head-parameter out of the Universal Grammar in the spirit of Chomsky (2005).