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Chapter 12 - Right-Dislocation in Korean: An Overview

from Part III - Morphology and Syntax

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2022

By
Heejeong Ko
Edited by
Sungdai Cho  and
John Whitman
Sungdai Cho
Affiliation:
Binghamton University, State University of New York
John Whitman
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

Chapter 12 analyzes the phenomenon whereby various types of elements may appear in postverbal position in Korean: arguments such as the subject, the object, the indirect object, and clausal complements may be dislocated to the right. Moreover, a variety of non-argument projections such as adverbials, prepositional phrases, relative clauses, and small clause predicates may also appear in a postverbal position. The chapter focuses on two basic issues on RDCs: (i) whether the RDC involves a mono-clausal or bi-clausal structure and (ii) whether postverbal elements undergo movement or are base-generated. The chapter also looks into differences among sub-varieties of RDCs in Korean, as classified by the grammatical and semantic function of the Right-Dislocated material, the type of the correlate in the main clause, and the number of dislocated items. Cross-linguistic implications of the Korean data for the current research on RDCs in other languages such as English, Dutch, German, and Bangla are also discussed.

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word orderRight Dislocationcorrelateappendixhead-final languagesmovementbase-generationspecificationfragmentscrambling
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The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics , pp. 339 - 375
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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