한국어 sprouting 유형 유사수문구문의 분열구조 분석

A Cleft Analysis of the Sprouting Type Sluicing-like Construction in Korean

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the internal structure of the sprouting type sluicing-like construction in Korean. The focus of the paper is to explore the syntactic differences between merger type and sprouting type with respect to island effect and postposition stranding. Then the remainer of this paper is devoted to the analysis of the information structure of sprouting type construction, leading to the finding that the structure semantically corresponds to that of the cleft construction. Discussing the combination of a predicational subject and a focus shared by the two constructions, the paper concludes that the sprouting type sluicing-like construction in Korean is the same as the cleft construction in general, in that they both have the structure of specificational copular clause.