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Structural Case-driven Object Shift of ECMed Nominals out of the CP
This paper argues that the surface position of the ECMed nominal in Korean should be [Spec, v P] in the upper clause This paper is against the arguments that the Korean ECM construction is a syntactic reflection of pragmatic force (ie, Int effects in Chomsky`s (2001) term) (Jung 2001, Yoon 2004, among others) In fact, the overt object shift of the ECMed nominal is driven b..
- [�±�] ECM | feature checking | object shift | structural Case

Asymmetric Unlearning of Null Arguments in L2 English Acquisition by Korean speakers
This study investigates how Korean speakers learning English unlearn L1-oriented null subjects and null objects The participants were 22 Korean ESL high school students from three proficiency groups Ten native speakers served as controls The methodology is an acceptability judgment task using Yuan`s (1997) questionnaire of null subjects and null objects Results show th..
- [�±�] null subjects | null objects | EPP | PP | L2 English acquisition by Korean speakers

On the Role of Intonation and Pauses in the Interpretation of English Parenthetical Adverbs
This paper investigates the relative contribution of intonation and pauses in English-speaking listeners` interpretation of certain potentially ambiguous adverbs in English When ``cleverly``, for example, is used in a sentence like ``The people in the basement (,) cleverly (,) opened the vent to the outside``, the adverb can be interpreted as having either a parenthetica..
- [�±�] English parenthetical adverbs | prosody | disambiguation

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The purpose of this paper is to compare the functions of tough-constructions in English and Korean The main claims of this paper are as follows First, we have argued that tough-constructions in English and Korean should not be viewed as a phenomenon of movement, but as involving the semantic and pragmatic functions Second, we have discussed the functions of tough-constructi..
- [�±�] tough-construction | English | Korean | information packaging theory | topicalization | thetic/categorial judgment

Word Order in the History of English
The English language has progressed from a language with varied surface word orders towards a language with fixed surface order due to a general reduction of inflections Old English looked similar to Middle and Modern English with regard to the SVO order in the main clauses However, Middle and Modern English were very different from Old English with regard to the order i..
- [�±�] the English Language | history of English | Old English | Middle English | Modern English | word order

The Low Origin Hypothesis for There Constructions
The primary goal of this paper is to show the proper syntactic position for the generation of the expletive there We advocate the low origin hypothesis in which it is argued that the expletive there is merged in the specifier position of v and agree locally with its associate NP We employ the strict successive cyclicity to explain the peculiar behaviors of the expletive const..
- [�±�] expletive there | strict successive cyclicity | EPP | partitive Case