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Head (linguistics)
About: Head (linguistics) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2540 publications have been published within this topic receiving 29023 citations. The topic is also known as: nucleus.
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TL;DR: This paper examined how the use of the two types of RCs interacts with the NPAH, with a focus on subject (SU) and direct object (DO) RCs in Korean second language development.
Abstract: This study examines how Keenan and Comrie's (1977) noun phrase accessibility hierarchy (NPAH) intersects with the typological characteristics of Korean in the acquisition of relative clauses (RCs). Korean has two types of RC constructions: head-external and head-internal. The head-external relative has its head to the right of the RC, whereas the head-internal relative has its lexical head in the RC and is marked by the complementizer kes. In first language development, it has been observed the head-internal type emerges earlier than the head-external type. The current study investigates how the use of the two types of RCs interacts with the NPAH, with a focus on subject (SU) and direct object (DO) RCs in Korean second language development. Oral production data were collected from 40 learners of Korean as a foreign language. The results showed that there was an advantage for SU over DO in the head-external RC and that the head-external construction was preceded by headless and head-internal constructions. The results suggest that a head-external RC in Korean involves the syntactic mechanism of linking the head and the gap relation, whereas this might not be the case for a head-internal RC.The authors would like to thank Yasuhiro Shirai, Stephen Matthews, Virginia Yip, and the anonymous SSLA reviewers for their valuable input and feedback on this paper. Any errors, of course, are our own.
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TL;DR: The authors investigates the structural and interpretive aspects of the HIRC construction and the HERC construction within the principles-and-parameter approach with reference to Japanese, English, and Basque.
Abstract: This dissertation investigates the structural and interpretive aspects of the Head-Internal Relative Clause (henceforth, HIRC) construction and the HeadExternal Relative Clause (henceforth, HERC) construction within the Principles-and-Parameters Approach with reference to Japanese, English, and Basque. Specifically, wc will explore the following questions throughout this dissertation: (i) Is there really a single and uniform grammatical process of relativization involving an overt or null operator movement in natural language?; (ii) What is/are the underlying licensing mechanism(s) of each type of relativization in natural language? With respect to the question (i), the present investigation will clearly demonstrate that there is in fact no single and uniform grammatical process of relativization which employs an overt or null operator movement in natural language. Furthermore, in this connection, it will be claimed that what has been standardly called an operator movement in relativization is not an operator movement at all. As for the question (ii), wc will show the following points in this dissertation. First, the HIRC construction involves an empty argument NP [c] which functions as an Ε-Type pronoun in the sense of Evans (1977a,b; 1980) and
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25 Jul 2013
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method to solve the problem of "uniformity" in the literature.and.and, and, respectively, the authors' work.
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