Further to Lee (2008) where Aspect is proposed to be located in VP- layers in Korean, this paper considers a wider range of data from the area of verb copying from Korean to consolidate the proposal. Parallel Chinese examples of the same verb copying construction are also considered to corroborate the current position. From a theoretical perspective, the results obtained surprisingly lead to the underlying head-initial structure in Korean as well. Thus Kaynean (1994) universal Spec-head-complement order hypothesis is supported, and head-parameter is rendered to fall out of the Universal Grammar, as recent Minimalist Program claims.
1. Introduction
2. Verb copying construction in Korean and Chinese
3. Head-final structure
4. Head-initial structure
5. Summary
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