The PERSON restriction on periphrastic irrealis complementizers and the interpretation of subject pro

This squib demonstrates that in Korean, depending on the selectional relations between tense and complementizers, and the restriction on the subject under certain complementizers, first- and second-person subjects can be dropped without being construed with a discourse topic. Therefore, the contents...

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Published inCanadian journal of linguistics Vol. 64; no. 4; pp. 753 - 760
Main Author Ceong, Hailey Hyekyeong
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Toronto Cambridge University Press 01.12.2019
Subjects
Complementizers
Discourse
Grammar
Korean language
Language
Linguistics
Periphrasis
Person
Pro drop parameter
Restrictions
Tense
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ISSN0008-4131
1710-1115
DOI10.1017/cnj.2019.23

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Summary:This squib demonstrates that in Korean, depending on the selectional relations between tense and complementizers, and the restriction on the subject under certain complementizers, first- and second-person subjects can be dropped without being construed with a discourse topic. Therefore, the contents of pro are not always recovered in the same way in discourse-oriented null subject languages (Huang 1984, Holmberg et al. 2009, Barbosa 2011).
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ISSN:0008-4131
1710-1115
DOI:10.1017/cnj.2019.23