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This paper investigates pronominal definites in Korean in comparison with English. Since Postal (1966), pronominal definites such as we linguists in English has been viewed as being similar to definite noun phrases such as the linguists. The core insight has been that pronominals in such definite descriptions behave like a definite article such as the. In the analysis of personal pronouns in Déchaine and Wilstchko (2002), different personal pronouns in English are analyzed into different categories (pro-DP vs. pro-φP) which accounts for the availability of 1st and 2nd person pronominal definites and for the unavailability of 3rd person pronominal definites (*they linguists) This paper shows that different personal pronominal definites in Korean can be analyzed in a similar manner to English proposed in Déchaine and Wilstchko (2002). This analysis is then re-considered under recent analyses on pronominal definites in English in which they share a core structure, idxP(indexP), with definite descriptions such as a definite noun phrase. An idxP approach is also previously suggested for demonstrative ku and pronoun ku in Korean. Building on these studies, Korean case is reanalyzed in terms of idxP. Under the proposed account, prominal definites in the language share idxP with demonstrative nominal phrases.

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I. Introduction
II. Pronominal Definites in English
III. Pronominal Definites in Korean
IV. More on the 3rd Person Pronoun ku(-tul)
V. IdxP and Pronominal Definites
1. Background on idxP
2. IdxP in the structure of pronominal definites
VI. Conclusion
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• Kim, Kyumin [ Chungbuk National 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