Verb Cluster, Non-Projectivity, and Syntax-Topology Interface in Korean

This article proposes a simple modeling of Korean word order within the framework of the topological dependency grammar – the first topological modeling for this language – a system of formal rules accounting for the correspondence between the dependency tree of a sentence and an ordered constituent structure. We show that a fairly small number of linearization rules can account for the word order facts of Korean, considered to be a language with a relatively free order. These rules will be described, especially the non-projectivity phenomenon based of the notion of “verb cluster”, a cohesive topological constituent, which appears in a syntaxtopology interface.