One of the central doctrines of VP ellipsis and null anaphora is that they relate sloppy identity The way they are hypothesized to do so is by postulating ambiguity of interpretation in the complete clause, or by treating null objects as a kind of VP ellipsis What we have been arguing here is focussed on such semantic questions However, it should be pointed out that there are..
As willingness to communicate (WTC) has been proposed as one of the key concepts in L2 learning and instruction, speakers` psychological antecedents to WTC and factors affecting them have also become important in the language education field This study addresses two research questions (a) Does speakers` excitement fluctuate during L2 communication (b) If it does, what f..
Robert Frost`s labor poems open a mysterious space where ``spell`` or fantasy cannot be separable from labor or reality and rather holds a cooperative relationship with it as a way to overcome the modern dilemmatic situation often called ``the waste land`` Frost`s method for accomplishing human dream again in this waste land is differentiated from T S Eliot`s ``the mythical..
The primary purpose of this study is to analyze sixteen reading topics of ten high school English I textbooks, developed according to the 7th National Curriculum In addition, the study investigated how much the reading topics in these textbooks reflect students` and teachers` interests To this end, data were collected from 539 students and 44 teachers in Chungbuk with ques..
The goal of this study is to investigate if there are any different aspects in learning English relative clauses among different levels of Korean EFL students English relative clauses are often classified in four types on the basis of the grammatical role of the antecedent, the relative pronoun, and the trace of movement It has been noted that learners show a certain develo..
Shakespeare repeats in the fifth act earlier situations and images to bring Coriolanus`s story full circle he also creates reversals in the direction of action, the tenor of images, and the predominance of certain word-patterns to show the changes in that story The two principles lend a conclusiveness to the fifth act One of the two principles at work in the ending of Coriol..
Some studies classified a glide into a consonant, while others into a vowel or both So did the case of a semi-vowel Moreover, a glide is sometimes called as a semi-vowel The number of English diphthong is not consistent along with different studies, which is closely related with a glide and a semi-vowel In this regard, this paper aims to reveal what a glide is, what a semi-vo..
The so-called serial verb constructions (SVCs) permit Case-alternation, causing the goal to bear possession For example, while the verb sa ``buy`` in Korean is a simple transitive verb, the verb buy in English is a ditransitive verb, causing the goal to bear possession hence, the genuine counterpart of buy is not sa, but sa-cwu ``buy-give`` This helps us to cultivate the i..
The objective of this paper is to provide the possibility that DP can be included in the phase system and the to discuss the phasehood of DP Chomsky (2000, 2001a, 2001b) assumes that a phase is CP or vP and that derivations should proceed phase by phase However, I propose that DP is also a phase, and the specifier position of DP functions as a relevant escape hatch of wh-ext..
Many critics have interpreted The Playboy of the Western World on its mythic level, but they have failed to integrate the play`s underlying structure and its mythic meaning This failure may be because they have tried to extract some points or elements of the play and to fit them into an existing antiquity When we need an archetypal figure to explain a literary work, we try t..
During the 1950s, many of the Koreans who immigrated to the United States were so called ``war brides`` married to US soldiers However, there is little room for these women not only in the record of immigrant history, but in the any part of Korean society The main reason these women have been muted is that the most of them had worked as sex workers in US military base in Korea..