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The Syntax and Semantics of Noun Modifiers and the Theory of Universal Grammar

A Korean Perspective

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Authors:
  1. Min-Joo Kim

    1. Department of English, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA

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  • Offers a detailed universal DP structure
  • Provides a new classification of adjective meaning
  • Sheds light on the mapping between the syntactic position and the meaning of linguistic expressions ?

Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 96)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Min-Joo Kim
    Pages 1-15

  3. Adnominal Adjectival Classes in Korean

    • Min-Joo Kim
    Pages 17-65

  4. Adjective Ordering Restrictions: The View from Korean

    • Min-Joo Kim
    Pages 67-96

  5. A New Formal Analysis of AOR

    • Min-Joo Kim
    Pages 97-157

  6. Capturing the Korean Facts

    • Min-Joo Kim
    Pages 159-236

  7. Extensions, Refinements, and Prospects

    • Min-Joo Kim
    Pages 237-299

  8. Summary and Conclusion

    • Min-Joo Kim
    Pages 301-313

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 315-321
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About this book

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. ​

Reviews

“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) 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA

    Min-Joo Kim

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Syntax and Semantics of Noun Modifiers and the Theory of Universal Grammar

  • Book Subtitle: A Korean Perspective

  • Authors: Min-Joo Kim

  • Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05886-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05884-5Published: 27 March 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05886-9Published: 20 March 2019

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4670

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 321

  • Number of Illustrations: 659 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Syntax, Semantics

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