상대적 최소성에 관한 연구

Rizzi(1989) defined ECP as follows ; a non - pronominal empty category should be head - governed and antecedent - governed conjunctively in order to be fully licenced, and both of these two conditions require Relativized Minimality. (1) Relativized Minimality X α - governs Y only if there is no Z such that (i) Z is a typical potential α - governor for Y and (ii) Z c - command Y and does not c - command X In (1), a potential head - governor m - commands Y and an antecedent - governor c - commands Y. A typical A - Spec, Ā - Spec and X˚ in Ā - chain, Ā - chain and X˚ chain respectively prevents each antecedent governing its trace in head - government or antecedent - government. To solve [that ― t] effect X˚ should govern t properly. A head governs an element properly only within an X˚’s immediate projection. A particular phenomena such as asymmetry between argument and adjunct could be solved by using referential θ - role. An empty category t bearing referential θ - role was treated by binding to cover the long distance binding, and adjunct - t was antecedent - governed. Therefore θ - government needed not be reguired in ECP. The above minimality made it much easier to solve the complex problems caused by rigid minimality. In addition, it clarified the degree of grammaticality. I obtained the same results even in relative construction and scrambling in Korean. Some particular points found in Korean relative construction and scrambling were that the antecedent government and binding in conjunctive ECP were nearly in union, and there were asymmetries between CP - Spec and IP - Spec. However there were no problems in applying the conjunctive ECP. If the differences are regarded as parameters, the above theory can be thought to have linguistic universality.