Word Order and NP Structure in Korean: A Constraint Based Approach
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The flexibility of Korean NP structures has been well-observed, but there have been few attempts to provide precise syntactic structures. This paper first reviews the basic distributional properties of Korean prenominal expressions as well as constraints in ordering, and then sketches a constraint-based, lexicalist analysis for Korean NP structures. Arguing for surface-based syntactic structures with more flexible subcategorization requirements, the paper shows that this lexicalist-based analysis can in a simple manner capture the flexible orderings of prenominal expressions as well as generate proper and precise NP structures, without resorting to functional projections.
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تاریخ انتشار 2010