The syntax and semantics of noun modifiers and the theory of universal grammar :
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[Book]
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a Korean perspective /
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Min-Joo Kim.
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Cham, Switzerland :
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Springer,
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2019.
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1 online resource (xvi, 321 pages) :
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illustrations (some color)
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Studies in natural language and linguistic theory,
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volume 96
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0924-4670 ;
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Intro; Foreword; Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Setting the Stage; 1.2 Aims, Motivations, and the Gist of the Analysis to Be Proposed; 1.3 Organization; 1.4 Some Remarks on the Technical Terms to Be Used; 1.4.1 What It Means for an ADJ to Be Intersective, Subsective, Modal, or Privative; 1.4.2 On the Predicative Versus Adnominal/Attributive, Intersective Versus Non-intersective, and Restrictive Versus Non-restrictive Distinctions; References; 2 Adnominal Adjectival Classes in Korean; 2.1 Some Background on Korean
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2.2 Major Korean Adjectival Classes and Their Characteristic Properties2.2.1 Adjectival Prefixes; 2.2.2 Adjectival Ns; 2.2.3 Attributive Determinatives; 2.2.4 Expressions Ending in -Cek; 2.2.5 UN-XPs; 2.2.6 RCs; 2.3 Summary and Discussion; 2.4 Conclusion; References; 3 Adjective Ordering Restrictions: The View from Korean; 3.1 Correlation Between the Morpho-Syntactic Complexity and the Interpretive Possibilities of an N Modifier; 3.2 Relative Ordering Among N Modifiers in Korean; 3.3 AOR on Simplex N Modifiers; 3.4 Relative Order Between DEM, NUM, and ADJ; 3.5 What to Make of Our Findings
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3.6 ConclusionReferences; 4 A New Formal Analysis of AOR; 4.1 Lessons from Cinque (2010) and Larson (1998, 2000); 4.2 Lessons from Svenonius (2008) and Laenzlinger (2005); 4.2.1 Svenonius' (2008) Decompositional Analysis of DP; 4.2.2 Laenzlinger's (2005) Complex-DP Analysis; 4.3 The New Analysis; 4.3.1 Three-Way Classification of Nominals; 4.3.2 Three Types of N Modifiers and Three Merge Sites Inside DP; 4.3.3 The Full DP Internal Structure and a New Decompositional Split-DP Analysis; 4.3.4 Interim Summary; 4.4 Some Immediate Welcome Results of the New Analysis
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4.5 More on the "Low" Origin of DEMs and the Position of FocP4.6 Summary; References; 5 Capturing the Korean Facts; 5.1 Application of the Proposed Analysis to Korean: Some Positive Outcomes; 5.2 Challenges for a Derivational Analysis; 5.2.1 Challenge 1: Surface Position of Certain UN-APs Relative to Other Lexical ADJs; 5.2.2 Challenge 2: Ordering Between RCs; 5.3 Solving the Problems by Adding an Output Filter; 5.3.1 Why Certain Lexical APs Surface in Such "Unexpected" Positions; 5.3.2 Ranking of the Constraints on AO in Korean
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5.3.3 Solving the Problems Presented by Some UN-AP and ATT-DET/CEK-AP Co-occurrences5.3.4 Ordering Restrictions on FRCs in Korean; 5.3.5 An Attempt to Formally Derive the Ordering Restrictions on Korean RCs; 5.4 Why Co-occurring with Ku 'the/that' Engenders a Non-canonical ADJ Order; 5.4.1 The Cognitive Indexical Properties of Ku at Hand; 5.4.2 Formally Capturing the "Special" Properties of KU; 5.5 Summary; References; 6 Extensions, Refinements, and Prospects; 6.1 Ordering Restrictions on Mandarin FRCs; 6.2 Integrated Non-restrictive RCs in Mandarin and Korean
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book takes Korean as a basis to provide a detailed universal Determiner Phrase (DP) structure. Adnominal adjectival expressions are apparently optional noun dependents but their syntax and semantics have been shown to provide an important window on the internal structure of DP. By carefully examining data from Korean, an understudied language, as well as from other unrelated languages, the book provides a broad perspective on the phenomenon of noun modification and its cross-linguistic variations. Furthermore, it offers not only a thorough syntactic analysis but also a formal semantic analysis of noun modifiers that extends beyond a single language. This book will be of great interest to researchers interested in theoretical syntax, its interfaces with semantics, pragmatics, linguistic typology, and language variation. With a wealth of data and important observations, in this volume Kim ventures into a notoriously difficult domain. She sheds new light on old puzzles and articulates some fresh new ones. The analysis of the Korean extended DP-and of nominals across languages-offered here is important and interesting, but it's the deeper analytical insights that underlie it that ensure this work's lasting relevance. Marcin Morzycki, Michigan State University, USA.
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Syntax and semantics of noun modifiers and the theory of universal grammar.