Exceptional Case Marking (ECM henceforth) refers to Case marking of the embedded subject by the matrix verb. The construction in which ECM occurs is called ECM construction. As its name implies, it is exceptional in that two elements in different local domains are involved. This paper aims at answering several questions concerning the ECM construction in Korean: (A) Why is there such a construction as the ECM construction? (B) Does the subject of the complement clause raise to the matrix clause? (C) Why is ECM only available in the /w construction, but not in other constructions? (D) What is the categorial status of the ko construction? I make a proposal that ECM is a syntactic realization of pragmatic force `Focus`. Thus, the complement subject raises into the Spec of the matrix vP to be assigned INT reading as discussed in Chomsky (2001) in OS languages. The movement is possible across the ko construction that is assumed to be a CP because Case assignment via the p(ostpositional) complementizer requires the complement subject to raise into the Spec of CP to meet Spec/Head agreement. Other clausal complements in Korean do not allow ECM since Case transmission is not available and nominal CPs do not allow movement into its Spec.

Hang-Jin Yoon. 2000. Case Licensing in Gerundive Constructions. Studies in Modern Grammar 22, 87-105. This paper is designed to examine Case assigning mechanism of gerundive constructions in English. The main focus is on Case licensing in the Acc-ing construction. After examining the data which lead to the conclusion that there is no inside Case assigner for the Acc-ing construction, I explore the possibility of the subject of the construction being assigned Case by the outside assigner through transmission. I propose that the prepositional complementizer plays an important role in transmitting Case from the outside of the construction. I further explore the parallelism between infinitive constructions and gerundive constructions.