Displacement of a syntactic constituent is a phenomenon commonly observed in a language and there are various kinds–Topicalization, Focus movement, Locative Inversion, Extraposition, and Scrambling, just to name a few. As the different names su... Displacement of a syntactic constituent is a phenomenon commonly observed in a language and there are various kinds–Topicalization, Focus movement, Locative Inversion, Extraposition, and Scrambling, just to name a few. As the different names suggest, various displacements have been categorized into different groups and have received different analyses. My aim, in this thesis, is to propose an analysis in which displacements of various sort fall out from a unified system where Edge features and Case makers play an important roles. My analysis builds on the following three proposals. First, Edge features and Case markers play an important role in explaining the force of syntactic movement within sentences and the semantic differences that follow from the movement. Second, there is a functional category, [±agreeP] betwee vP-VP, and its activation is dependant on the presence of a case marker, affecting the transparency and grammaticality of the phase it belong to. Third, when the movement is accounted by Phase Edge features and specific feature checking, various movement phenomena can be explained integrally and economically. Furthermore, the difference in meaning after the movement can be distinguished. In order to analyze Topic and Focus Constructions, this has accepted the split CP hypothesis in Rizzi(1997, 2000). I have argued that topic and focus constructions are movement phenomena for the feature checking of [±TOP] and [±FOC] and shown semantic differences according to the landing positions after movement. Especially, Korean Case markers -eun, -neun, -eul, -leul and Japanese case markers -wa, -ga have been regarded as an encoder for the internal Merge in Topic, Focus and Contrast Focus(CF) structures. If [±TOP], [±FOC], [±CF], and [±Strong Pragmatic Feature: SPF] features are properly checked at the Phase Edge, it is possible to distinguish Topic, Focus, and CF structures while semantic differences also stand out. In the case of LIC, I argue that the process of derivation of English and Korean is similar. However, in Korean LIC, the subject and verb inversion does not occur in the same way as the syntactic phenomenon of the English topicalization. This thesis also discusses semantic differences by [± Markedness] outside the [± agreeP] of vP. In other words, English LIC is a movement phenomenon under [/FOC] among D-effects features whereas Korean LIC bears on the same movement phenomenon under [/TOP] among D-effects features. This embraces the explanations presented in previous studies which state the reason why syntactic components that move to the end of the sentence are involved with semantic information structure and weight. However, it is possible to account for Extraposition consistently and economically that were difficult to explain in the previous studies described as the feature checking related to [/FOC] In the case of the Scrambling, this thesis explains why the scrambling appears more flexibly in the language with Case markers in relation to the Edge features. Especially, the Scrambling is involved in [/TOP] which is the same feature as the Topic construction and when the [±Strong Distinctive: SD] features and [Presupposition Feature: PF] are properly checked at the phase edges, the Specificity is given in the sentence after movement just like the Topic construction. To sum up, using [±agreeP] between vP-VP structure, semantic difference with specificity, D-effects, [±Markedness], and labelling, I have tried to overcome the limitation of previous studies and propose a revised approach to movement phenomenon such as Topic, Focus construction, English & Korean LIC, Extraposition, and Scrambling as the movement phenomenon by the feature checking. In conclusion, from the point of view of this , various movement phenomena are merely caused by differences of special features under movement phenomena. Basically, they have a commonality in that they are uttered as appropriate sentences when proper feature checking is checked at the Phase Edge. Several phase theories presented to explain the various movement phenomena concisely have produced more complex syntactic constraints to identify their computational processes. Based on the claim that this show, however, it is possible to verify the movement phenomena consistently and economically if Topic, Focus construction, LIC, Extraposition and Scrambling are explained by the feature checking. ，韩语论文范文，韩语论文 |
