Table of Contents

Introduction Young-Key Kim-Renaud; Part I. Phonology and Morphology: 1. On peripherality: a molecular approach Sang-Cheol Ahn; 2. Verbal compounds in Korean Young-mee Yu Cho; 3. Post-obstruent tensification in Korean and geminate inalterability Young-mee Yu Cho and Sharon Inkelas; 4. A prosodic analysis of Korean compounding Eunjoo Han; Liquid representation in Korean Gregory K. Iverson and Hyang-Sook Sohn; The status of the lenis stop voicing rule in Korean Sun-Ah Jun; On the obligatory contour principle related to sonority Hyunsoon Kim; Onset analysis of Korean on-glides Yongsung Lee; A re-analysis of consonant cluster simplification and s-neutralization Mira Oh; Variation of vowel length in Korean Jeong-Woon Park; The thematic nature of agentive Eykey in Korean Sung-Ho Ahn and Jung-Tag Lee; The semantics of conditionals Sung-Yun Bak; Functional projections and verb movement Dong-In Cho; On scrambling: reconstruction, crossover and anaphor binding Jai-Hyoung Cho; Syntactic WH-movement in Korean and licensing Hyon Sook Choe; A non-spurious account of 'spurious' Korean plurals Yookyung Kim; Definite/specific and case marking in Korean Chungmin Lee; An event-structure analysis of the stative/non-stative distinction in periphrastic causative and Mit-type verb constructions in Korean Myung-Kwan Park; Korean classifiers Barbara Unterbeck; Pseudo-double negation Jae-Hak Yoon; Part II. Historical Linguistics: Aspiration and voicing in old Sino-Korean obstruents Ik-sang Eom; On the relation between Hyangchal and Kwukyel Pung-hyun Nam; The accentuation of nominal stems in proto-Korean John B. Whitman; Part III. Discourse, Pragmatics and Acquisition: The grammar of null arguments in early child Korean Sook Whan Cho; Information flow and relative-clause constructions in Korean discourse Alan Hyun Oak Kim and Hyon-Sook Shin; 'Speech-act' adverbial clauses in Korean Haeyeon Kim; Discourse-pragmatic functions of sentence-type suffixes in informal discourse in Korean Hyo Sang Lee; Contributors; Index.

Reviews

'This volume gathers together perhaps the broadest collection of papers ever published on the general theme of Korean linguistics. The papers in each area give a flavour of sophistication and intensity of current research on Korean. We have perhaps become unaccustomed to regarding a language area as a unified subfield within linguistics; however, the range of problems presented by Korean data and the disposition of linguists working on the language from around the world combine to maintain a tradition of empirical breadth and theoretical relevance.' Ho-min Sohn, Chair, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Hawaii