Some A’-Dependencies in Korean

This paper concerns some A’-dependency constructions involving null operator movement in Korean. This paper argues that the analysis of null operator movement accompanied with the strong binding condition should be adopted for topicalization of Korean, and then illustrates that this kind of analysis can be extended to some other constructions such as relativization and null object constructions in Korean but not scrambling. In addition, I will make an attempt to explore how these constructions and the computation of null operator movement can be adapted to the recent framework of Chomsky’s (1993, 1994, 1995, 1996) minimalist program.