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This study applied to Korean the standard techniques (e.g., tense, case markers, etc.) which have been used to show that young children represent functional projections mainly for European languages, by focusing on Korean children’s production of mood morphemes. Based on what I found from the analysis of Korean CHILD database, I suggest that the over-use of the default mood-inflection ‘-e’ in the earliest speech of one Korean two-year old parallels root infinitive forms observed in other languages. I also found that the absence of inflectional morphemes and the absence of correlations between specific verb forms and null-subjects, or tense markers, seem to be consistent with the view that children initially have only lexical categories. Therefore, this apparently provides strong evidence for a prefunctional analysis of child Korean syntax. Despite this apparently strong evidence for a prefunctional analysis of child Korean syntax, I argue that the systematic presence of the linking morpheme ‘-ko-’ in truncated auxiliary verb constructions implies that at least some level of functional structure is represented, even when it is never produced.

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I. Introduction
 II. The Mood Morpheme ‘-e’ as Default Inflection
  2.1 Background on Korean Verbal Inflection
  2.2 Overuse of Mood Morpheme ‘-e’
 III. Lack of Additional Functional Morphology
  3.1 Past Tense
  3.2 Nominative Case Markers
  3.3 Verbal Morphology & Overtness of Subject
  3.4 Correlations Between Mood and Tense Marker Use
  3.5 Implications
 IV. Complex Verb Constructions in Child Korean
  4.1 Properties of AUX Verb Constructions (AVC) in Korean
  4.2 Truncation of Auxiliary Verb Constructions
 V. Conclusions
 Works Cited
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• Kim, Meesook [ 김미숙 | Sangji University ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

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  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

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  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810