Acquisition of Negation in Korean : Object Constructions in the Optional Infinitive Stage

One of the biggest issues in the study of language acquisition is to explain why children produce non-adult-like utterances, or why certain constructions develop at a certain time despite the existence of "early knowledge." This paper explores and provides supporting evidence to a possible role of "linguistic maturation" as an answer to the question by presenting a case where a certain delay/error in children's language use is due to maturational factors. Particularly, I argue that the wide-spread error in children's production of short-form negation in Korean known as an misplacement results from a single additional constraint on children's grammar, which will cease to function at a later stage in child's maturational development. The present analysis also supports "early knowledge" by demonstrating that a correlation between the an misplacement error and the use of case marking in children's utterances at this stage suggests that children between the age of 2 and 3 already know all the relevant morphological and syntactic aspects of Accusative case assignment in Korean

Verb raising and A/A-bar distinction : evidence from exceptional case marking

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1997.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 154-159).by Judy Yoo-Kyung Baek.Ph.D

Double Object Constructions in Korean: Asymmetry between Theme and Goal

Much of the generative studies on the double object constructions in English have shown that there exists an asymmetrical c-command relation between the Theme argument and the Goal argument: the Goal uniformly c-commands the Theme at D-structure. This paper attempts to prove that Korean also exhibits an asymmetric relation between the Theme and Goal in double object constructions, but it is the Theme that asymmetrically c-commands the Goal at D-structure in Korean

Linguistics

Contains table of contents for Section 4, an introduction and abstracts on seven doctoral dissertations