Implementing Scrambling In Korean: A Principles And Parameters Approach

This paper describes how the most complete recent linguistic results on Korean scrambling (switching of word order) can be readily incorporated into an existing principlesand-parameters parser with minimal additional machinery. Out of all 29 sets of examples in chapters 2.2 and 3.2 of perhaps the most advanced linguistic analysis of Korean scrambling, [5]. 6 sets of examples can be correctly parsed. greatly extending the variety of scrambling handled by any current parser. This approach is compared to other current approaches to scrambling, such as PRINCIPAR and Tree Adjoining Grammar. Thesis Supervisor: Robert C. Berwick Title: Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Computational Linguistics Acknowledgments Firstly, the author would like to thank his family and friends for all their support over the ears. The author also would like to thank Prof. Robert C. Berwick, Dr. Sandiwav Fong, Dr. Youngsuk Lee and Dr. Dekang Lin for their generous help.