The purpose of this paper is to survey James Huang’s proposal regarding PRO and pro with special reference to Korean, and to propose a new analysis on the distribution of pro in Korean, and to present some theoretical implications of the surface syntactic representations on parameteric variation with Chomsky‘ principles and parameters approach in syntax. I argue that Korean exercises on option that can delete arguments in surface representations, and that Korean actually shows a sort of subject- verb and object-verb agreement in honorific expressions.
Abstract
I. Introduction
II. Licensing PRO in Korean
III. “Null Arguments” in Subject Position
IV. “Null Argument” in Object Position
V. The Distribution of “Object pro”
VI. Conclusion
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