The approach to the study of language has recently changed in a way to accommodate the findings from its neighboring research fields. Evidence from evolutionary anthropology, genetics and biology has the FL restricted to recursion only, leaving all other mechanisms to the conditions on interfaces. Given that Merge is the most fundamental operation of FL, the labeling has been the target of research on the syntactic objects created by Merge. LA is an algorithm that searches the head property in the minimal domain and names it as a label. LA is part of Transfer and becomes complete at interfaces. This paper re-examines the algorithm of labeling in Chomsky (2013, 2015) to see how it works with the facts provided from areas other than linguistics. It also pursues the possibility that LA can derive coordination, double object constructions, and particle constructions. F-sharing is considered to be subject to parameterization in the minimalist frame though its role is not clear at interfaces except externalization.

Language is a crucial and complex lifelong capacity that is constrained by cognitive aging. Aging is thus regarded to be associated with poor performance particularly in the receptive and expressive language abilities. There are, however, some recent proposals that normal aging impairs specific aspects of language production, while most comprehension abilities remain stable as we age. This paper investigates how cognitive aging affects language performance, focusing on syntactic and semantic processing. Based on the experiments of structure choice and modification, it finds that both the syntactic and semantic systems remain largely stable across the life span and the semantic processing is rather preserved longer with age than the syntactic processing. This finding is consistent with the recent research on the compensatory neural recruitment as we age.

Soonhyuck Park. 2003. Coordination in Korean: sharing or ellipsis. Studies in Modern Grammar 32, 25-42. One of the issues of the coordinate construction is to determine the size of the conjunct. In this paper, I examine two approaches to the coordinate structure in Korean, focusing particularly on -ko coordination. By doing so, I will point out some problems of sharing analysis (VP) and ellipsis analysis (TP), and propose that the parallel reading of coordination can be obtained under the enlarged TP-level sharing analysis under a single MoodP, in which both conjuncts have the independent T and Neg. The extraction of the inflected verb out of the second conjunct triggers a violation of the Coordinate Structure Constraint. I propose that this can be remedied by reconstruction at LF, assuming that the tense and negation are interpreted at their base position (Fox(2000), Lin(2002)). It is also shown that reconstruction can`t be implemented with respect to Neg when there is an overt tense morpheme in the first conjunct. This blocking effect is also found in Italian, where the negative quantifier is also proposed to be interpreted after reconstruction at LF, but the intervening TP functions as a barrier in reconstruction (Zanuttini (1997)). This is one of the consequences which can be obtained under the enlarged version of sharing analysis.

Kim Eunil & Park Soonhyuck. 1997. The Construction of Database of English Sentences Based on Syntactic and Semantic Types. Studies in Modern Grammatical Theories 11: 1-16. Our database is to help researchers easily find the type of English sentences they want to discuss by clicking syntactic and semantic types or typing in words. The database written by MS Visual Basic 4.0 and MS Jet Database Engine 3.0 has 3 modules--i.e. search, input, and DB manager. The search module helps users find English sentences discussed in linguistic journals by using 62 syntactic/semantic types, words, sources, or grammaticality. The input module helps users make his/her own database while the DB manager merges two DB files.