A Minimalist Interpretation of In Seok Yang's Ideas

Abstract

Kang, Myung-Yoon. 2010. A Minimalist Interpretation of In-Seok Yang's Ideas. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 35-4, 863-882. This paper discusses the main points of In‐Seok Yang’s ground‐breaking work, Korean Syntax(1972), which can be viewed as an monumental work in Korean syntax within the early Chomskyan framework, and evaluates its significance within the recent minimalist theory. As it turns out, Yang’s arguments about Multiple Case Constructions can be re‐illuminated as a cartographic structures of Specs within IP, similar to the cartographic structures recently suggested by Rizzi(1997, 2004). Other important aspects of Yang’s theory concern sentential complementation constructions, in which he argued for clausal reduction and verbal compounding, and some of which provide significant dilemma in modern GB or minimalist frameworks. Some other Korean constructions involving so‐called Equi‐subject constructions offer other dilemmas, but some of them may in fact be shown to support little v analysis within recent minimalist framework. (Korea University)