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Null arguments and topics in the acquisition of English by Korean speakers.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Null arguments and topics in the acquisition of English by Korean speakers./
Author:	Kim, So-Young.
Description:	257 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Richard Young; Anja Wanner.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-09A.
Subject:	Education, Language and Literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3234668
ISBN:	9780542886607

Null arguments and topics in the acquisition of English by Korean speakers.
Kim, So-Young.

Null arguments and topics in the acquisition of English by Korean speakers. - 257 p.

Advisers: Richard Young; Anja Wanner.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2006.

This dissertation discusses specific aspects of the acquisition of English by Korean speakers, focusing on the interaction between null arguments and topics, in response to the Extended Projection Principle (EPP) of the L2 English. While the main framework is the generative theory of Universal Grammar, I incorporate insights from discourse and typology to explicate the topic phenomenon in the L1 Korean. In the Korean counterpart of As for this book, I like it, the pronominal it is expressed as a null argument. The topic in Spec-Top(ic)P carries discourse-prominence, involved from [+topic] in Head-TopP, whereas the null argument lacks discourse-prominence. The present study tests a hypothesis that unlearning of null subjects is facilitated by the L1 topics replacing the L2 subjects, showing asymmetry in unlearning of null subjects and null objects. The adopted methodology was grammaticality judgment tasks of 50 test items that included topics, null subjects, and null objects. The participants were 155 Korean EFL learners, and 20 English native speaker controls. The data were analyzed using non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis tests, followed by Scheffe post-hoc tests. The results support the hypothesis, showing that there are, (i) asymmetric accuracy of null subjects over null objects, (ii) early operation of the EPP, and (iii) a tendency to accept topic sentences where a topic is followed by a verb. I argue that the interlanguage is predicational, where either a topic or a subject saturates a predicate. The predicational nature of their interlanguage is manifested in an FP, which is a transitional structure from the L1 TopP to the L2 IP. The head F is occupied by [+topic], as one option of the EPP. If [+topic] is operative, Spec-FP is occupied by an L1 topic, such as a spatiotemporal topic. If not, Spec-FP is filled by an L2 subject, such as the expletive it. The EPP satisfaction by either a topic or a subject is empirically attested in Finnish (Holmberg and Nikanne, 2002), as well as conceptually legitimate considering that a topic occupies the peripheral EPP position in TopP (Chomsky, 2001; Rizzi, 1997). This suggests that the interlanguage EPP is a natural language rule.

ISBN: 9780542886607Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018115
Education, Language and Literature.

Null arguments and topics in the acquisition of English by Korean speakers.
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