Korean and English relative clauses

Includes bibliographical references (pages 50-51)This thesis discusses the similarities and differences\ud between Korean and English relative clauses on the basis of\ud Ross???s NP-S analysis of relative clauses.\ud Korean and English are unrelated languages. Korean is\ud a SOV language whereas English is a SVO language. Thus,\ud the order of English relative clause constituent structure\ud is S-NP in Korean.\ud Most previous contrastive studies of relative clauses\ud in Korean and English were confined to superficial differences\ud and problem points. This study broadens the scope of\ud investigation and includes an explanation for most syntactic\ud distinctions between Korean and English relative\ud clauses.\ud Although on the surface, Korean clausal modifiers lack\ud relative pronouns, their underlying structures share\ud similarities with English relative clauses. Both languages\ud produce relative clauses by embedding the subordinate sentences\ud into head NP's. The language specific transformational\ud rules in relative clause formation for English are\ud Pronominalization, Relative Pronoun Deletion, Modifier\ud Shifting. For Korean the language specific rules are\ud Modality Adjustment and Case Marker Deletion. Relative\ud Clause Reduction in English and Copular and Existential\ud Verb Deletion in Korean are similar rules. Constraints\ud such as the Pied Piping Constraint, the Complex NP Constraint,\ud the Sentential Subject Constraint, and the\ud Coordinate Constraint are applied on relative clause formation\ud in both languages. Although pseudo-relative clauses\ud have similar semantic clues, they are derived from different\ud underlying structures