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This paper delves into the properties of the subject and accordingly suggests teaching implications. The subject seemingly appears to be explained in connection with Case theories and Ɵ-roles. This causes much ado in teaching the subject to EFL students. In this paper, I examine some major properties of the subject. First, the subject does not necessarily carry nominative Case; sometimes it takes some other Case when there is no Case assigner available within a clause that it belongs to. Second, agent is not a sole Ɵ-role assigned to the subject.; the subject is not always the doer of an action. Finally, the subject position can be filled by either expletives without any meaningful content or PRO, an empty category. Conclusively I argue that the subject is purely a syntactic concept and should be determined by its structural position. Case and Ɵ-roles are simply peripheral to its syntactic account and accordingly suggest teaching implications appropriate to secondary school students.

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I. Introduction
 II. Instructional Facts
  1. Agent and Subjecthood
  2. Case and Subjecthood
 III. Properties of the Subject
  1. Argument and Thematic Roles
  2. Nominative Case and Subject
  3. PRO
 IV. Subject across Categories and its Position
  1. X-bar Theory and the Subject Position
  2. EPP and Expletives
 V. Conclusion and Teaching Implications
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• Kang, Seung-Man [ 강승만 | Chungbuk National University ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810