한국어 공백화 구문(Korean Gapping Constructions)에 대한 다중관할(multidominance) 분석

The multidominance analysis of Korean gapping constructions

This paper aims to explore the properties of Korean gapping constructions and to provide an appropriate analysis for them. On the basis of Munn s (1993) adjunction structure and Citko s (2005) parallel merge, we propose a multidominant structure for Korean gapping constructions. One of the consequences obtained from this hypothesis is that the verbal gap, which appears in the first conjunct, does not rely on the across-the-board verb movement (cf.. Johnson (2004, 2009a), López & Winkler (2003), Agbayani & Zoerner (2004)) but rather on the asymmetric spell-out in the multidominant structure (cf., Wilder (1999, 2008)). Concretely, under our multidominance analysis, we account for the agreement phenomena of Korean honorific morpheme -si by means of closeness between probe and matching goals. And we analyze the extraction phenomena of left branch elements as the result of the asymmetric spell-out that is realized only in one conjunct. We also propose an incorporation analysis to account for the ommission phenomena of postposition and Case marker in Korean gapping construction.