재귀사 자질점검 이론의 연구

A Study on the Feature-Checking Theory of Reflexives: Focusing on the Reflexivization in Korean

Studies in Modern Grammatical Theories 8: 91-127. The main goal of this study is to argue that the various types of anaphora, displayed by Korean reflexives, can be explained in terms of a reformulated version of feature-checking theory along the line of Chomsky’s(1992, 1994) minimalist theory. As a result from this study, it comes to light that all kinds of Korean reflexives, including X⁰-reflexives, except the caki type are analyzed as complex reflexive NP consisting of a pronominal element, either overt or covert, and a reflexive element, as analogous to English reflexive, him+self. These internal elements of reflexives must move up to the relevant positions within the upper functional category DP at LF level for their feature-checking respectively, which virtually gives rise to another movement of D (or DP in some instance) for the identification of its feature-variables by higher AGR. It also turns out under the argumentation that the subject-orientation of reflexives may be captured by the ‘subject-orientation principles for reflexives,’ proposed here under the feature-checking theory of reflexives.