Yoo, Yunchul

"""Extra"" Accusatives in Korean and Their Implications for Japanese"

Yoo, Yunchul

This item is only available for download by members of the University of Illinois community. Students, faculty, and staff at the U of I may log in with your NetID and password to view the item. If you are trying to access an Illinois-restricted dissertation or thesis, you can request a copy through your library's Inter-Library Loan office or purchase a copy directly from ProQuest.

Permalink

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/82653

Description

Title: """Extra"" Accusatives in Korean and Their Implications for Japanese"
Author(s): Yoo, Yunchul
Issue Date: 2008
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): Yoon, Hye Suk James
Department of Study: Linguistics
Discipline: Linguistics
Degree Granting Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name: Ph.D.
Degree Level: Dissertation
Keyword(s): Language, Modern
Language: eng
Abstract: "I propose that an additional head called Tr (Basilico 1998, Bowers 2002) must be introduced within the verbal projection, between vP and VP, which is responsible for introducing and licensing the high accusatives. I argue that the high accusatives are ""alternatively"" case-marked in a Spec-Head relation within the framework where case-marking is canonically conducted via Agree between an asymmetrically c-commanding Probe and a matching Goal. I argue that the ""alternative"" case-marking is independently motivated by the Ba-phrases in Chinese and the Ra-phrases in Persian. I then take up the issues around the Double-O Constraint in Japanese, which has largely remained unexplained. Based on the phase theory and multiple Spell-Out (Chomsky 2000, 2001, Hiraiwa 2002) and the phrase structure and the case theory mentioned above. I give them a principled account. I also discuss some crucial differences between Japanese and Korean in licensing accusative case from the perspective of the proposed phrase structure, case theory, and the phase theory."
Graduation Semester: 2008
Type of Resource: text
Permalink: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/82653

Owning Collections

Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois PRIMARY

Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois