Effects of Focus and Markedness Hierarchies on Object Case Ellipsis in Korean
Han‐Jung Lee · Discourse and Cognition · 2006
Naturalness of case ellipsis in Korean has been attributed to the information status and markedness of arguments, although few studies compare the two factors explicitly. Through experimentation, the present study demonstrates that both factors simultaneously and independently influence object case ellipsis. We also propose a functional account for patterns of variation in case ellipsis based on the two main functions of case (the identifying and the distinguishing function) augmented with the notion of argument strength.