Scrambling and Parasitic Gaps in Korean

• Published in: 언어와 정보 사회 Vol. 37; pp. 325 - 361
• Main Author: Jong Un Park
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Korean
• Published: 서강대학교 언어정보연구소 31.07.2019
• Subjects: (anti-)reconstruction effects; (non-)separate chain view; parasitic gaps; real gaps scrambling; weak crossover
• ISSN: 1598-1886

The main aim of this paper is to answer long-standing questions surrounding parasitic gaps in Korean: First, does Korean have genuine parasitic gap constructions?; secondly, if there are PGCs in Korean, what kind of movement licenses PGs?; and third, do a PG and an real gap form a single chain or separate chains? We argue that Korean has not only an adjunct type but also a subject type of PGs, contra S. Park's(2018) view that only the latter type is available in the language. As for the second question, building on K.-H. Lee(1988, 1998), we maintain that it is scrambling that licenses PGs in both types of PGs, and that the operation must apply in those configurations to obviate weak crossover effects. Finally, we present data that support the non-separate chain view, namely that both real gaps and PGs are licensed by the same instance of scrambling. In particular, we adopt the sideward movement approach (Hornstein & Nunes 2002) as a viable way of deriving the properties of PGs in Korean under the non-separate chain view.