자연 언어의 비정규적 주어에 대한 통합적 연구 (I)

This paper seeks solutions to the problems with quirky subjects in Korean and Japanese. In doing this, we examine characteristics of quirky subject constructions in the two languages, and investigate what issues have been raised by such constructions. Focusing on the honorific agreement phenomenon in the two languages, we try to derive peculiarities of honorific nominals, and then use them for our explanation of quirky subjects. Though defective, φ-feature agreement does exist in Korean and Japanese with the so-called honorific feature as a gender feature. Adopting Sigurðsson s (2003) and Miyagawa s (2004,2005) Strong Uniformity Principle, which is essentially proposed by Chomsky (2001), we can successfully explain the gist of the phenomenon of quirky subject in Korean and Japanese.