The Syntactic Structures of Korean

Table of Contents

• 1. Theoretical foundations
• 1.1 Derivational vs constraint-based views
• 1.2 Linguistic signs and feature structures
• 1.3 Constructions and multiple inheritance hierarchy
• 1.4 Korean phrase structure grammar
• 1.5 Conclusion
• 2. Noun phrases
• 2.1 Basic properties
• 2.2 Basic ordering restrictions
• 2.3 Simple NP structures
• 2.4 NPs with phrasal determinants
• 2.5 Conclusion
• 3. Case system
• 3.1 Two basic issues
• 3.2 Forming case-marked nominal expressions
• 3.3 A construction-based case assignment system
• 3.4 Complex case phenomena and predictions
• 3.5 Case assignments in the auxiliary constructions
• 3.6 Case assignments to the non-nominal expression
• 3.7 Conclusion
• 4. Auxiliary and complex predicate constructions
• 4.1 Types of auxiliary verbs and morphosyntactic properties
• 4.2 Three possible analyses
• 4.3 Syntactic properties of complex predicates
• 4.4 A construction-based analysis
• 4.5 Conclusion
• 5. Gerundive phrases and mixed categories
• 5.1 Verbal and nominal properties
• 5.2 Derivational analyses
• 5.3 Inflectional treatment of the gerundive nominalizers
• 5.4 A mixed-category analysis
• 5.5 Consequences and further issues
• 5.6 Conclusion
• 6. Verbal nouns and light verb construction
• 6.1 Basic properties
• 6.2 On the properties of the light verb
• 6.3 On the mixed properties of the verbal nouns
• 6.4 Mixed properties within a multiple inheritance system
• 6.5 Argument composition and syntactic structures
• 6.6 Dissolving variations
• 6.7 Conclusion
• 7. Serial verb construction
• 7.1 Serial verbs and general properties
• 7.2 Grammatical properties of the SVCs
• 7.3 Types of serial verb constructions
• 7.4 A construction-based view
• 7.5 Conclusion
• 8. Negation and related phenomena
• 8.1 Short form and long form negation
• 8.2 Reviews on the derivational view
• 8.3 Short form negation
• 8.4 Long form negation
• 8.5 Implications of the analysis
• 8.6 Conclusion
• 9. Coordination
• 9.1 Two main types of nominal and verbal coordination
• 9.2 Lexical properties of the coordinators
• 9.3 More on the syntactic aspects
• 9.4 Symmetric and asymmetric verbal coordination
• 9.5 Conclusion
• 10. Passive constructions
• 10.1 Lexical vs syntactic passive
• 10.2 Auxiliary syntactic passive
• 10.3 A construction-based analysis
• 10.4 Light-verb syntactic passive
• 10.5 Inchoative and stative pseudo syntactic passive
• 10.6 Conclusion
• 11. Wh-questions
• 11.1 Dependency between Wh-question and Q-particle
• 11.2 Wh-questions and indefiniteness
• 11.3 A construction-based analysis
• 11.4 Key predictions
• 11.5 Conclusion
• 12. Topic and focus constructions
• 12.1 Topic constructions
• 12.2 Encoding focus
• 12.3 Focus constructions
• 12.4 Conclusion
• 13. Relative clause constructions
• 13.1 Some key properties
• 13.2 Morpho-syntax of Korean relatives
• 13.3 Standard relative clauses: externally headed
• 13.4 Double relative clauses
• 13.5 Internally headed relative clauses
• 13.6 Pseudo-relative clauses
• 13.7 Concluding remarks
• 14. Honorification
• 14.1 Basic properties of honorific agreement
• 14.2 Honorification in a constraint-based grammar
• 14.3 Conclusion.
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