This paper illustrates a strong bond between the genre constitutions of reading textbooks and the improvement of EFL learners` reading proficiency arising therefrom. Textbooks should be as simple as possible within the proficiency level of EFL learners. The advisability of simplified and authentic texts is recommended for their reading texts. Authentic simple texts should be devised or located in the real world. Peering into whether reading texts contain simple, suitable, exploitable, and readable contents, which should be a desideratum on an authentic textbook, this paper argues that only when reading texts are properly constituted to encompass EFL learners` interest in English, a genuine learner-minded activity in which students focus on the class can be implemented. In a bid to nail the key elements of the reading textbooks, this paper analyzes their components and contexts based on several genre categories. Along with the belief that reading texts should contain the genres to advocate considerable attention to EFL learners with intermediate-level reading proficiency and to encourages them to move on to a higher-level proficiency, this paper claims that the genres of reading textbooks should not swing too far one way, but the constitutions should be kept in equilibrium.

This paper aims to examine the logical and semantic meanings of wh-movement in English, by taking up individual and pair-list readings available in a sentence in which a quantifier like everyone is contained. Not following the movement hypotheses, I instead take the argument by Rooth (1992, 1996) and Ramchand (1996). I assume that a wh-phrase is contrastive-focused and a contrastive-focused phrase provides a set of relevant things, which contains the meaning of wh-questions. I claim that to derive a correct meaning related to scope of wh-phrases, wh-movement is not necessarily required. This paper also considers the syntactic-semantic derivations of wh-questions in English, to find out an alternative method of the interpretations of wh-phrases.

Young-roung Kim. 2000. Nu1l-Case Checking in Agr-less and Agr-based Theory. Studies in Modern Grammar 22, 145-157. The primary propose of this paper is to examine what it is like to check null case in Agr-based and Agr-less theories. Chomsky (1995) eliminated Agr, actually going back to I, on the ground that Agr plays no role in PF and LF, that Agr violates Bare Inclusiveness Condition, and that the role of Agr can he replaced by T (or I) and v. his paper argues, contra Chomsky, that Agr plays a key role in null-case checking, and that null-case checking can be explained more effectively explained in an Agr-based mechanism than in an Agr-less device.

Kim Young-roung. 2000. Configurations of Floating Quantifiers. Studies in Modern Grammar 19, 49-68. This paper purposes to analyse the configurational structures of floating quantifiers, and thereby reveal the proper grammatical features of floating quantifiers. I will review the general properties of floating quantifiers presented in Baltin (1995), Sportiche (1988), Giuliana Giusti (1989), and Ur Shlonsky (1991), and show the relations between NP movement and floating quantifiers in the framework of the minimalist program. Using the evidence that subjects originate in spec-VP, I will show how a floating quantifier ends up modifying the trace of a moved NP, and why a quantifier floated further away form the phrase it quantifies results in lower grammaticality.

Kim Young-roung. 1999. A Minimalist Analysis of Weak Crossover Effects. Studies in Modern Grammar 16, 89-101. This paper aims to find out a more persuasive theory of a weak crossover principle by comparing some linguists` arguments concerning crossover phenomena. By reviewing various examples regarding weak/strong crossover and linking preferred to coindexation, this paper shows that a minimalist explanation of linking renders it possible to account for weakest crossover data without the use of null epithets, while scrutinizing the environments of the so-called weakest crossover phenomena. A linking approach can finesse weak crossover effects. This paper also notes that the constructions with psych verbs are judged more acceptable than those without psych verbs. Following Chomsky`s (1993) assumption that objects move out of the VP to Spec AgrO for case-checking at LF, we can find further evidence favoring a linking approach to weak crossover effects.

Kim Young-young. 1998. A Minimalist Approach to Pair-List Readings. Studies in Modern Grammar 14, 107-124. A sentence can have two interpretations based on the scope of WHs and quantifiers. QR raises ambiguity at LF. May (1985) claims the drop of the requirement that sentences be disambiguated at LF. In a sentence in which WHs and quantifiers mutually c-command each other, ambiguity arises according to the scope of WHs and quantifiers at LF. This ambiguous sentence is called pair-list readings by Homstein(1995). This paper purposes to study the configuration that supports such pair-list readings and the quantifiers that should be adjoined to IP and VP to support pair-list readings. The ECP/MBR relations concerning pair-list readings are reviewed. For pair-list readings to emerge, WHs should be functionally interpreted with a quantifierbound pronoun. I have found that the pair-list readings can be explained in terms of the Minimalist theory.

Kim Young-roung. 1996. INFL-Lowering vs V-Raising. Studies in Modern Grammatical Theories 8: 227-241. Chomsky claims that English undergo lnfl-lowering at S-structure to assign an appropriate θ-role and V-raising at LF not to violate the ECP. However, all that French needs is V-raising, not Infl-lowering. This is because Infl-lowering is against his core economy principle. Thus, for a better economy principle, I argue that English also does not need to undergo Infl-lowering at S-structure. Only V-raising is required, not Infl-lowering. This claim confirms to the Least Effort Condition. I present two devices for my claim of V-raising in English at D-and S-structures: In the case of a verb with a PP complement, as a way for solving the problems concerning a θ-role when assuming V-raising at S-structure, I claim that verbs raise only with Case-marking feature, while leaving behind a θ-role-marking feature. Thus, an appropriate θ-role can be assigned to the complement through reanalysis. In the case of "often-type" adverbs, a verb move together with an adverb.