Korean sluicing requires the use of a copular ita ‘be’ unlike English. In explaining such a peculiarity, a (pseudo-)cleft analysis has strongly been proposed that Korean sluicing is derived from a cleft construction, rather than from TP-deletion. In order to examine the plausibility of the cleft analysis, this paper, based on the experimental syntactic method, explores acceptabilities of Korean sluicings, which were designed to vary depending on the three factors, such as the presence or the absence of a correlate in an antecedent clause, of the overt subject kukey ‘it’ in a following clause, and finally, of a case marker on a remnant. 110 participants were told to judge 64 sentences (including filler sentences) and two-way repeated measure ANOVA was performed using SPSS (ver, 25.0). The experiment result shows that the acceptability becomes significantly higher when a correlate and a case marker on a remnant occur enough to ameliorate island effects. Also, the presence of the subject kukey ‘it’was found to have an effect to facilitate parsing. These suggest that the uniform cleft analysis cannot account for the various types of Korean sluicing, rather necessitating non-uniform analyses for them.

Pil-Hwan Lee. 2003. A Historical Study on English Negative Expressions - with Special Reference to the Methodology in English Historical Syntax. Studies in Modern Grammar 31, 107-136. This is a study on the changes in sentential negation in English, from Old English to the present day, in terms of Jespersen`s(1917) Negative Cycle. The Negative Cycle is an assumption that negative adverbs are depleted lexical meaning they undergo phonological and morphosyntactic reduction to a bound morpheme prefixed to the finite verb. The history of English clearly supports this assumption. The issue is how to explain these aspects of changes. van Kemenade(1997a, 1997c, 1999, 2000) tries to account for the history of English sentential negation as a pure case of morphosyntactic change. It means that the change was triggered by structural factors. However, it is argued in this paper that the triggering factor for the change is the weakening of meaning. In other words, negative adverbs are morphologically and syntactically weakened to negative head status due to the semantic bleaching of negation and to the overlapping function in expressing sentential negation in NegP. The two positions in NegP inherently presuppose the functional redundancy in expressing sentential negation, so the specifier of NegP is generally weakened to Neg˚.

Yong-Suk Kim. 2000. A Morpho-Syntactic Analysis of Reflexives: A Minimalist Approach. Studies in Modern Grammar 19, 1-26. This study proposes a minimalist DP-analysis of the internal structure of reflexives in natural languages, along with Chomsky`s (1995) assumptions. This analysis proves that X^0-reflexives as well as XP reflexives should syntactically fall under the DP structure, as expected in Abney (1987). Consequently, the analysis uncovers the following long-pending mysteries: (i) why English has the occurrence of only phrasal reflexives; (ii) why phrasal reflexives consist of a pronominal element and a reflexive morpheme; (iii) why so many different types of reflexives are empirically identified in Korean. Besides, this study illustrates that the contrast of long-distance anaphora between X^0-reflexives and XP reflexives is attributed to the analyzability of the D head of X^0-reflexives as LF clitic, which is assumed to cliticize to a higher relevant functional category at LF.