Hwang, Bo-geun. 1998. Word-order Patterns of Compounds in Beowulf. Studies in Modern Grammatical Theories, 12, 1-18. The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the compounds employed in Beowulf and to get the data concerning word-order patterns of compounds in it. The compounds are first classified into word-classes by their behaviors in the context: nouns, adjectives, and verbs. The noun compound is the largest in number, 83.2%, and the adjective and verb are 16.4% and 0.4%, respectively. In this study are excluded the verb combined with adverbs and prepositions, such as aet, be, for, in, ofer, purh, under, up, wip, etc. The lowest in frequency of the verb compound is explained by it. The adverb compounds are not found chiefly because the genitive and accusative cases of nouns are used as adverbs. Of the noun compounds the combination `Noun+Noun` is the highest in frequency; of the adjective `Noun+Adjective` is higher than `Adjective+Noun`. The analysis of the semantic structures of the noun compounds is shown in Table 2.2.1. The word-order pattern `O+V` surpasses the `V+O` pattern in number; the `Modifier+ Noun` does the `Noun+Modifier`. The `V+S` pattern is not found while the `S+V` is lower in frequency. In the adjective compounds (as shown in Table 2.2.2), the `V+S` is greater than the `S+V`; the `O+V` is greater in number than other combinations, and the `V+O` is not found. The `Adverb+Adjective` is much higher in frequency than the `Adjective+Adverb`. In the analysis of the semantic structures of the compounds in Beowulf (shown in Table 2.2.4), the highest in frequency is found in the word-onler `OV` and those consisted of elements with the `Modifier+Head` relationship. This suggests that the English in Beowulf, i.e., the English up to the 11th century had the word-order patterns of an OV language.
Chong, Song-Yun. 1988. Connected Speech and Lexical Phonology. Studies in Modern Grammatical Theories 12, 19-37. In this paper I describe several aspects of the postlexical phonology in conjunction with Connected Speech(CS). As a first step to explicate the interaction between words when they are strung together into CS, I, following Kaisse(1990), segregate the rules of CS into two types, namely, Registerdependent rule which is sensitive to syntactic information and Rate-dependent rule sensitive to phonological environment. Secondly, to utilize the two types of rules properly in postlexical domain, I argue that postlexical rules in current Lexical Phonology should be further elaborated by postulating two levels; P1 and P2 levels. In P1 level, rules are applicable for cliticization (the main proposition in this paper) and phonological word(or phrase) (e.g. stress system, intonation, and other prosodic structure). In P2 level, pure phonological rules(such as flapping, vowel nasalization, nasal deletion, word-final stop deletion) are optionally operated. In between P1 and P2, the Pause should be inserted in order to preserve the linguistic structure. To establish the proposed corollary, I present every possible argument and, thus, confirm that the theoretical basis is justifiable.
Yong-Suk Kim. 1998. Some A´-Dependencies in Korean. Studies in Modern Grammatical Theories 12, 53-82. This paper concerns some A´-dependency constructions involving null operator movement in Korean. This paper argues that the analysis of null operator movement accompanied with the strong binding condition should be adopted for topicalization of Korean, and then illustrates that this kind of analysis can be extended to some other conshructions such as relativization and null object constructions in Korean but not scrambling. In addition, I will make an attempt to explore how these constructions and the computation of null operator movement can be adapted to the recent framework of Chomsky`s (1993, 1994, 1995, 1996) minimalist program.
Dongseok Kim. 1998. Feature Checking in CP and the That-t Effect. Studies in Modern Grammatical Theories 12, 83-102. This paper briefly reviews the ECP and the minimalist theoretic accounts of the that-t effect, and proposes that the that-t effect together with the adverb effect can be adequately explained with the assumption that the [+Q]-feature of the subject wh-phrase is directly attracted by the strong [+Q]-feature of C(i.e. the complementary categorial feature of C) whereas the wh-phrase moves through the [SPEC, CP] of the embedded clauses, if any. In the analysis proposed in this paper, that; if, etc., which have been taken to be complementizers, are reanalyzed as C-checkers, and the that-t effect is captured by the Case checking mechanism in CP. Under the hypothesis that the subject wh-phrase moves from the vP-internal position to [SPEC, CP] for Case feature checking the that-t effect appears when the [-Q]-feature of C is checked by a C-checker with phonological features which do not permit T-to-C raising. The account on this track has the advantage, over the existing analyses, of reducing the chain formed by movement of a wh-subject to a uniform A´-chain, and taking complementizers to be null categories in conformity with the other functional categories such as T, v, etc.
Lee, Jae, Choel. 1998. The Locality on Movement and the Strict Cyclicity. Studies in Modern Grammatical Theories 12, 103-123. In the framework of the Minimalist Approach, as the Government theory is eliminated, the locality on movement is determined by the Checking Domain of Head Chain, the Minimal Link Condition, the Extension Requirement, three processes for the Generalized Transformation, and so on. The purpose of this paper is to examine that the Strict Cyclicity becomes a factor that determine the locality of movement, is to point out the problems of the Extension Requirement(Chomsky 1992), the Minimal Chain Condition(Chomsky 1994) and the Target α (Kitahara 1995) that are suggested to guarantee the Strict Cyclicity, and is to prove the problems to be solved by the Attract-F Theory. When the feature of the checker is strong, the strict cyclicity is automatically guaranteed, because the closest item containing the relevant formal features must move to the SPEC of the checker before the projection of the upper head does occur. There never arise direct movements of lexical items after Spell-Out. The violation of the Strict Cyclicity cannot occur after Spell-Out, either because the relevant formal features only move to the sublabel of the checker and adjoin there.
Lee, Sang-oh. 1998. Auxiliary Inversion of Wh-interrogative Questions and Checking. Studies in Modern Grammatical Theories 12, 125-139. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the auxiliary inversion and its checking relation of wh-interrogative questions in English in the light of various assumptions made by minimalist theory in linguistics. Following the basic hypothesis that the auxiliary inversion in wh-questions depends on the strength of the head C of CP, the requirement that the C of CP be filled by some element fulfills the operation of auxiliary inversion by being attracted (adjoined) to the question affix(Q). Furthermore, the data drawn from Belfast English and the successive cyclic A´-movement of wh-expressions are used to discuss the function of the specifiers of CP containing overt or null elements, which play important roles in explaining the auxiliary inversion in wh-interrogative questions. The constructions such as subject questions, non-interrogative embedded clauses, and non-interrogative questions are also discussed for the aim of suggestion that only the head feature of C of CP containing overt wh-specifiers is strong enough to attract the auxiliary into the question affix.
Kim Jong-do. 1998. The Study on the Image-Schema Transformations. Studies in Modern Grammatical Theories 12, 141-168. This paper is designed to show an appropriate way to analyse polysemie phenomena by taking a process morpheme. -er as an example. And it emphnsises that their appropriate analysis could be achieved when it is based on the schemathic network categorization model. The model is thought to be able to avoid the problems posed by the traditional categorization and the prototype model. -er is thought to have there contextual meanings: agent, instrument and setting. These meanings can be connected through image-schema transformations. Three schemas which represent their respective meanings can be united through the superschema. On the other hand, the present tense is thought to be polysemous. But its polysemy is caused by transformations applied on another grammatical category aspect. In this point the present tense is not polysemous. This paper also shows that image-schma transformations work on all the grammatical levels, for they are not the superficial grammatical gimmics, but mental activities. Thus all the grammatical phenomena should be analysed ultimately on the base of cognitive activities.
Chung Moo-Joo. 1998. Personal Pronouns and Their Speech Roles. Studies in Modern Grammatical Theories 12, 169-186. The referents of the 1st and 2nd person pronouns are not fixed, but shift according to the situation, as participants take turns to speak. This paper was written to describe a wide variety of social and political roles and stances of these inter-personal pronouns. The actual discourse referents for use are seemingly limitless its precise interpretation is dependent on the particular context of use. `Inclusive we` ostensibly implies joint activity; but in different contexts there is actually a greater pull either towards egocentricity [+ego] or a vocative function [+voc]. The most striking example of egocentric reference is the so-called `royal We` and `editorial use`, both representing the authority of the speaker. The `inclusive we` with its addressee role is used when the speakers feel solidarity with the subordinate addressees. Impersonal pronoun one, recently, is used as a socio- linguisticaly marked form of I among the upper class and royalty and their hangers-on. To refer to the addressee, the third person forms can be used, implying deference, distance, or intimacy. On the evidence of medieval and Early Modern English texts the polite form you was used to address a singular social superior and also a social equal among the upper class, leaving thou for address to a social inferior and for reciprocal address among the lower classes. There was, however, considerable fluctuation between you and thou in address to the same individual, even within the same utterance. This code-switching of you and thou frequently signals expressive shifts of feeling that are not easily explained by a power semantic.
Lee, Sangdae. 1998. Tense and Aspect in English. Studies in Modern Grammatical theories 12, 187-214. This paper is to allow for a unified analysis of tense, and aspect, not committed to a particular theoretical framework but to a comprehensive descriptive syntax. Aspect and tense are both concerned with temporal reference, and considering that tense sometimes may imply aspectual meaning, it is difficult to distinguish between tense and aspect. The English aspect, however, deserves an independent grammatical category as it has syntactic devices to express various aspectual meanings related to non-dietic time in aspect. Aspectual meanings vary according to the distinction of count terms and mass terms, the interaction of the event quantification with the argument quantification like the subject and object, and the interaction of the event quantification with the adjunctive quantification. Therefore, to describe the tense and aspect, we should consider not the verb alone but the relations between the other grammatical categories, including subject, object, and ever adverb. Relevant contexts can reveal the relevant situations which tense and aspect represent.
Won-Ho Kim. 1998. Non-propositional Addressers: the Plural Copy in Korean. Studies in Modern Grammatical Theories 12, 215-223. The purpose of this paper is to show that the plural copy in Korean is pragmatically conditioned. The plural marker, when it appears on places other than the plural nominal, does not indicate a plural subject but a plural addressee. This deictic category does not form a constituent of the proposition, and thus current syntactic theories are not well equipped to accommodate this morpheme.
Chung, Sang-Hun. 1998. An Image-Schematic Analysis of Values in Linguistic Expressions. Studies in Modern Grammatical Theories 12, 225-240. The purpose of this study is to analyze some aspects of value systems reflected in linguistic expressions by means of the image-schematic approach that Mark Johnson has presented, and axiological semantics which studies values with reference to the meaning of various linguistic expressions, and whose task is to describe those values and ways in which they determine both the structure and the functioning of human language as manifested in human communication. The concepts `good` and `bad`, and Tischner`s hierarchy of values have been used. The results of the study are as follows; First, image-schemata are primarily based on human bodily experiences. Second, image-schemata which are based on different clusters of experiences are bi-polar. They have a `good` pole and a `bad` pole. Third, center, link, whole, up, front, right are regarded as `good`, while periphery, no link, part, down, back, left as `bad`. Fourth, `bad` can be defined relative to `good`. but not the reverse. Things canbe `bad` only to the extent to which they are `not good`, for the experience of `bad` comes from the experience of `lack`. Fifth, positively charged concepts are more likely to be unmarked forms, while negatively charged concepts are more likely to be marked forms.
Yeo, Kyunghee. 1998. Information Processing of the Cognitive Skill and the Second Language Learning. Studies in Modern Grammatical Theories 12. 241-256. The purpose of this paper is to explain the second language learning from the perspective of the cognitive psychology, which views the second language learning as an information processing. According to the perspective of the information processing, the mastery of complex cognitive tasks, such as learning the second language, requires relatively large amounts of processing capacity and time and another that occurs quickly and takes little processing energy. These two types of operations are referred as "controlled" and "automatic" processing, respectively. Repeated performance of the components of the task through controlled processing leads to the availability of automatized routine, resulting in learning. But there is more involved in learning a complex cognitive skill than automatizing subskills. The learner must also impose organization and structure the information that has been acquired. As more learning occurs, internalized, cognitive representations change and are restructured. This restructuring process involved operations that are different from, but complementary to, those involved in gaining automaticity. Although both processes occur throughout the learning, gains in automaticity are thought to be more characteristic of early stages of learning and restructuring of later stages.