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FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES: THE SYNTAX OF DP AND DEGP
by
So-Young Park
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(LINGUISTICS)
May 2008
Copyright 2008 So-Young Park
Object Description
| Title | Functional categories: the syntax of DP and DegP |
| Author | Park, So-Young |
| Author email | soyoungp@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Linguistics |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-03-07 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-04-29 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Borer, Hagit |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Li, Audrey Simpson, Andrew Hoji, Hajime Pancheva, Roumyana College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Abstract | This dissertation explores a minimal/universal set of functional projections which are involved in building nominal and adjectival expressions. It presents several case studies of nominal and adjectival expressions such as verbal noun constructions, numeral classifier constructions, plural expressions, and comparative constructions, based on the assumption of the highly impoverished lexicon, whereby properties of grammatical structures, typically having been assumed to be associated with lexical items, are reduced to general syntactic considerations; no lexical specifications with respect to the distinction between referential and event nominals, the distinction between mass and count nouns, and the distinction between gradable and non-gradable adjectives are argued to be required in the lexicon, and instead they are attributed to the properties of syntactic derivations involving the presence or the absence of VP, ClP, and GP respectively.; Verbal nouns are claimed to be verbs and the constructions are analyzed by appealing to the general theory of derived nominals and gerunds (Chapter 2). Numeral classifier constructions are proposed to have the DP structure embedding a small clause inside it (Chapter 3). Plurality in classifier languages is attempted to be explained in relation with distributivity (Chapter 4). Comparatives in Korean are shown to involve degree operator movement and three types of comparatives such as CP, small clause, and measure phrase DegP comparatives are identified (Chapter 5 and 6).; Based on those case studies, the sets of functional projections responsible for forming nominal and adjectival phrases are identified: ClP, #P, DP/QP for nominal projections, and GP and DegP for adjectival projections. Those functional projections are considered universally attested and necessitated even in East Asian languages, especially in Korean, which have been known as the languages with impoverished functional categories.; All the analyses proposed in this dissertation point to a minimalistic view of parametric variations; semantics of bare lexical items are same across languages: all nouns, by default, being mass nouns and all adjectives being non-gradable adjectives across languages, interpretations associated with functional categories are uniform and their functional hierarchy in the grammar is also uniform. The differences, then, reduce down to their distinct way of realizing the functional nodes morpho-phonologically. |
| Keyword | functional categories; DP; DegP; verbal nouns; numeral classifiers; plurals; comparatives |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1196 |
| Rights | Park, So-Young |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Park-20080429 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Park-20080429.pdf |
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| Full text | FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES: THE SYNTAX OF DP AND DEGP by So-Young Park A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (LINGUISTICS) May 2008 Copyright 2008 So-Young Park |
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