This study aims to show that 2nd person pronouns in English and Korean do not cover the grammatical category only. They show spatio-temporal indications of discourse covering extralinguistic categories such as politeness, respect, intimacy, solidarity, all of them social, pragmatic components. Our study also reveals the fact that both languages have employed honorific/common nominal expressions as a last resort to fill the blank caused by the inappropriateness of the pronoun. Another fact we discovered is that Korean has a more complicated hierarchy for 2nd person pronouns than English does, which is a reflect of strong/weak social hierarchy in both cultures.

This study aims to examine the distribution of English unstressed pronouns, i.e., unstressed personal pronouns. English unstressed pronouns sometimes have a unique distribution different from their referential counterparts in phrasal-verb constructions, dative constructions, subject-verb inversed sentences, etc. This study shows that their unique distribution is due to the two properties that they have. One is that they are old in information structure, thus they choose to come earlier if possible in a sentence. The other is that they are clitic in that they are phonologically bound to their preceding Case assigner.