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Yoon, Hye Suk James Yoon, Hye Suk James Benmamoun, Elabbas Lasersohn, Peter N. Arregui-Urbina, Karlos Lee, Wooseung 2010-01-06T17:49:13Z 2010-01-06T17:49:13Z 2012-01-07T11:00:11Z 2010-01-06T17:49:13Z The goal of this thesis is to investigate the pervasive role of case-markers in the morpho-syntax of various constructions in heavily dependent-marking languages such as Korean and Japanese. I show that Case plays a special role in Korean, unlike in other languages (e.g. German) by comparing the morphosyntax (and prosody and interpretation) of two types of nominal coordinations that are differentiated by the presence/absence of the case-marker in the initial conjunct. I then develop a novel system, which I call the “Incremental C-selectional Combinatoric Analysis”, in which case markers or other combinatoric markers are crucially implicated in the structure building. I also demonstrate how some of the traditional issues revolving around the so-called null categories – both null arguments and null predicates – are resolved; null predicates are licensed strictly by syntax, while null arguments are not syntactically licensed. Rather, missing arguments mean the structural absence of the arguments. The constructions that I am focusing on in this investigation include different types of Noun Phrase Coordinations, Right Node Raising (RNR) Constructions, Coordination under Right Node Raising (CoRNR) Constructions, Null Argument Constructions and Right-Dislocation Constructions in Korean/Japanese. First, I discuss how the null predicate is licensed and gets interpreted in coordination contexts such as Type A/B nominal coordinations, RNR as well as CoRNR constructions. The null predicate is syntactically licensed by the (combined) case-marked NPs in the initial conjunct. The contents of this null predicate are cataphorically resolved when the overt predicate in the final conjunct is encountered. I then discuss the syntax of Null Argument Constructions. Unlike the proposals made so far, I propose that null arguments mean structural absence of the arguments. Specifically, missing elements are not syntactically projected at all. Finally, I analyze Right-Dislocation Constructions as bi-clausal, which are composed of a host clause and an appendix clause containing a null predicate. The null predicate in the appendix clause receives anaphoric interpretation by being co-indexed with the overt predicate in the host clause. Before closing with some implications of the proposed analysis, I discuss how to handle sentences with some case-drop or without case-markers at all. I propose that they are asyntactically formed. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2009-11-24T16:16:49Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Lee_Wooseung.pdf: 1265175 bytes, checksum: b3ed1104e8a5dc4630418f01b37a5df6 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2010-01-06T17:49:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4059 bytes, checksum: b8a09bc0d8107f6c5594b97913a11331 (MD5) Lee_Wooseung.pdf: 1265175 bytes, checksum: b3ed1104e8a5dc4630418f01b37a5df6 (MD5) Item marked as restricted to the 'Administrator' Group (id=1) by William Ingram (wingram2@illinois.edu) on 2010-01-06T17:49:46Z Item is restricted until 2012-01-06T17:49:44Z Item reinstated by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2012-01-07T11:00:11Z Item was in collections: Dissertations and Theses - Linguistics (ID: 648) University of Illinois Dissertations and Theses (ID: 204) No. of bitstreams: 3 Lee_Wooseung.pdf.txt: 335368 bytes, checksum: ba66cf5e5cfeebe8ea4b96a2351c238c (MD5) license.txt: 4059 bytes, checksum: b8a09bc0d8107f6c5594b97913a11331 (MD5) Lee_Wooseung.pdf: 1265175 bytes, checksum: b3ed1104e8a5dc4630418f01b37a5df6 (MD5) Item released from any restrictions by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2012-01-07T11:00:11Z http://hdl.handle.net/2142/14749 en Copyright 2009 Wooseung Lee Case-marked Noun Phrases Clause Structure Building Null Predicates Null Arguments NP Coordinations Right Node Raising Right- Dislocation The role of case-marked noun phrases in clause structure building 2009-12 Linguistics 1864 Linguistics 0301 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:Linguistics -UIUC 10KS0301PHD