Coerced Relative Clauses in Korean

Korean Kes-Relative Clauses as Stages

Recently, M.-J. Kim (2008) provided a reformulation of the Relevancy Condition on kes-relative clauses (kes-RCs) (Kim, Y.-B. 2002), the so-called internally headed relative clauses in Korean. In her analysis, the bipartite conditions of Kim (2002), one involving simultaneity between the main and the relative clause and the other involving a ‘resultant theme’, are collapsed into one involving a ...

Korean Children’s Acquisition of Relative Clauses

Various studies have reported that subject relative clauses (the boy who likes the woman) are easier to produce and comprehend than object relatives (the boy that the woman likes). To expand this discussion, this study investigates young children’s production of head-final relative clauses in Korean. In particular, it is examined whether Korean children acquire relativization in the order predi...

Getting Rid of 'Double Relative Clauses' in Korean

On the syntax of relative clauses in Korean

The two major approaches to the syntax of Korean relative clauses in the extant literature can be classified as the operator-movement analysis and the operatorbinding analysis. Under the operator-movement analysis, the gap is a trace/copy of a null operator that has undergone movement (e.g., D.-W. Yang 1987, J.-I. Han 1992, H.-K. Yang 1990, C.-H. Han and Kim 2004). On the other hand, under the ...

Relative Clauses

In this chapter, we examine the typology of relative clauses. We will define relative clauses as follows: (1) A relative clause (RC) is a subordinate clause which delimits the reference of an NP by specifying the role of the referent of that NP in the situation described by the RC. Since the NP whose reference is being delimited is in the matrix clause, we will call it NP mat , and we will call...