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    Scrambling in universal-grammar : an analysis of scrambling as optional movement in Korean and other languages
    (2005) Kang, Dae-Hyang; Alexiadou, Artemis (Prof.)
    The main goal of this study is to provide an analysis that the free word order is derived from one underlying word by movement of constituents rather than freely base generated, and the involved movement is not an instance of last resort of movement, but rather optional. In order to show that scrambling is not constrained by the economy principles, I will analyze scrambling in terms of Minimalism. Another issue in this study is that IP-adjoined Clause Internal Scrambling as well as Long Distance Scrambling exhibit mixed A and A' properties, unlike the suggestion that Long Distance Scrambling poses only A'-properties, as proposed by Saito (1989;2001) and Mahajan (1990), although their assumptions have been generally accepted in scrambling research. On the other hand, both VP-adjoined Clause Internal Scrambling and Long Distance Scrambling in Korean only pose A'-properties. The investigation is mainly based on Korean data, comparing it with that of other scrambling languages such as Japanese, German, Hindi-Urdu and Russian, which have their own language specific properties. This study is organized as follows; Chapter 2 deals with the properties of movement. Chapter 3 contains two different views of scrambling. Chapter 4 examines the multiple subject and object construction in Korean. Chapter 5 contains the properties of Long Distance Scrambling. In chapter 6 I will explore the properties of wh-phrase and wh-scrambling. In chapter 7 I will investigate the properties of Topicalization, Quantifier Raising and Object Shift. Finally, chapter 8 summarize the main argument of this study and conclude with my remarks.