Based on theoretical observations that the theory of Movement or Displacement has the problem of Economy, an alternative way of computation called Simultaneous Merge in Multidimension is suggested. Instead of step-wise Merge of full-fledged features and cyclic, or phase by phase derivation of structures, one-fell swoop of Merge in Multi-dimension for occurrences of copies with different sets of underspecified features is assumed. Only specified occurrences survive into interfaces, where they are concatenated under the principle of Inclusion operating on the comparative set properties between occurrences.

Chegyung Im. 2017. Word Formation and Merge of Korean Personal Pronouns Based on Feature Agreement Theory and Distributed Morphology. Studies in Modern Grammar 96, 23-50. Most of the previous studies on the personal pronouns in Korean have depended on the typological studies of English pronouns. I argue, in this study, that the recent theories of the Distributed Morphology and the Strongest Uniformity Hypothesis show the process of morphological formation of Korean pronouns and featural agreement in the process of their Merge. I also argue that the hyper structure of Speech Act Phrase is needed to license the computational process among the speaker, the hearer, and the arguments in the sentence.

The purpose of the paper is to explore the viability of employing Speech Act Phrase structure to explain “-kes kath-ta” constructions in Korean. Based on the argument that interfacing between syntax and conversational pragmatics is established through a functional predicative structure which is projected through the syntacticization of speech act features, we suggest that the speech act layer for “-kes kath-ta” constructions is needed as a predicative structure encoding the conversational set-up to interpret the utterance compositionally.