Abstract
The present study investigated whether thelocal/A-scrambling of non-subject NPs toclause-initial (a potential subject) position canturn them into controllers of subject propertiessuch as Honorific Agreement and PluralCopying. The study was motivated by findingswhich showed that A-scrambled non-subjectscan control some subject properties, such asreflexive binding, from the scrambled position.An experimental study was conducted withKorean native speakers using MagnitudeEstimation to test the acceptability of thesentences with subjects and scrambled nonsubjects functioning as the controller of theseproperties. Overall results revealed thatscrambled non-subjects cannot control thesesubject properties, despite the fact thatscrambling could have placed them in a subjectposition (SpTP). Implications of the findingsfor the research on subject properties in Koreanand more generally are discussed.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages | 814-822 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| State | Published - 2018 |
| Event | 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2018 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong Duration: Dec 1 2018 → Dec 3 2018 |
Conference
| Conference | 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2018 |
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| Country/Territory | Hong Kong |
| City | Hong Kong |
| Period | 12/1/18 → 12/3/18 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Computer Science (miscellaneous)