Scrambling across PP - Topic
Cho Jai Hyoung · 1998
Cho, Jai-Hyoung. 1998. Scrambling across PP-Topic. Linguistics, 6-2, 1-21. This paper examines NP-topic and PP-topic constructions and shows that PP-topicalization is differentiated from NP-topicalization. It is noted that an NP-topic in Korean is base-generated in the Spec position of TopP, which is located higher than CP, whereas PP-topicalization is derived by movement, i.e., a PP-topic is preposed to the sentence-initial position, and the PP-topic phrase receives only the contrastive interpretation. It is demonstrated that in contrast to scrambling across an NP-topic, scrambling across a PP-topic, as non-operator A`-movement, does not exhibit the WCO effect since it creates a null epithet, which is immune to the WCO Constraint. Finally, it is maintained that unlike scrambling across an NP-topic, scrambling across a PP-topic creates a new anaphor binding relation since it can be an IP-adjunction operation. (Ajou University)