On the Nature of Focus Movement

This paper proposes that long-distance scrambling in Korean is a syntactic movement in that it is induced via formal feature matching. On the basis of some properties of the movement I further propose that it is focus movement. As to the driving force of the movement, it is illustrated that there is a difference between wh-movement and focus movement: In the former driving force lies in the matching feature of a functional category, but in the latter it lies in both a feature of the moved element itself and the matching feature of a functional category. It implies that there are at least two types of syntactic movements: one induced by a functional category, the other by the moved element itself. Finally, it is shown that the optional selection of [+foc]EPP in the lexical array results in another possibility of deleting the [+foc] feature of a focus phrase in terms of a strong stress without movement.