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In order to give an account of syncope for the word general, Hammond (1997) proposes to add FAITH(FINAL) to his three constraints, F( σ ), *FOOTLESS and F(σ ). This paper examines his data on English syncope and thereby points out that Hammond's OT-based approach to syncope should be modified to a greater or lesser degree to postulate a new constraint FAITH(CODA), which requires that in syncopation the coda structure of the output have an identical correspondent in the input. Added to this is an attempt to apply this new constraint to account for any possible difference between resp(i)ratory and respir(a)tory in the degree of optimality

In this paper I present my method of analysis, including two kinds of charting, as well as discuss some kinds of discourse markers and their uses in a narrative of the Jeju Dialect. In this narrative, most of the various markers in consideration also combine to highlight the intense part of the narrative- the peak. I also point out that with a look at the discourse of a language, one can see what the discourse features of a language or dialect are, contributing to the overall understanding of the language variety.

The purpose of this paper is to apply a multi-level semantic analysis to causal and concessive conjunctive structures and to show the advantages of this approach over the previous semantic accounts of them. It is argued that this multi-level semantic approach brings more insights than conventional semantic accounts, not only by incorporating polysemous status and pragmatic ambiguities into the semantic account, but also by providing a more realistic analysis of the meanings of causal and concessive conjunctions. An actual application of this approach to the Korean causal conjunctive suffixes, -(e)se and -(u)nikka is provided in the latter part of this paper. The semantic analysis of these two Korean conjunctives reveals that the previous discrete categorization attempts have caused some confusion regarding these categories and that we need a more flexible categorization in order to deal with them.

This paper first investigates into the English teaching methods in Korea for the past 100 years or so that may or may not have produced what could be referred to as a codified set of Korean English. These codified set of Korean English that are used by Korean students are investigated into based on a personal experience of teaching English in Korea. The possible origins and linguistic reasons of the codified set of English are suggested along with few action research strategies as how to facilitate better production of English for further future research.

The main goal of this paper is to look over the current extension of topic studies in linguistics. Admitting that the definition of topic still remains a controversy among scholars, much of research has been done so far. The difference in their approaches voice the various reflections in theoretical pursuit. Among others, the present study focuses on the well-known two camps: formal and functional. For the former, transformational model is a target of discussion. In this line, the main task of a formal approach is to identify the topic in terms of structural operation including syntactic and morphological characteristics. For the latter, the approach is more interested in the pragmatic and discourse functions of the topic entity than just in its relations to syntactic structure.

This study aims to suggest what type of language policy should be planned and put into practice in Jeju Free International City(JFIC). JFIC doesn't have to choose English as an official language, but to make it the dominant language of wider communication with many foreigners from all parts of the world. At the same time our national identity and traditional values should be retained through the correct uses of our mother tongue, Korean. In this study, the real meaning of keeping English as an official language, the foreign language service system in JFIC, an advisable language policy in JFIC and some future tasks for developing JFIC are dealt with.

Many heated arguments have been developed about the status of the English Language in Jeju Island since the project of Jeju Free International City has been made public. This paper deals with the English Language as the global language and suggests how to teach and use English in Jeju Island in order to develop Jeju Island successfully into an Free International City without damaging our language, culture, customs, history, and so on.

This study focuses on how to develop Korean children's grammar in English language, not by teaching grammar directly, but by providing opportunities for grammar learning that arise in the classroom. The opportunities for grammar learning can be organized with various teaching techniques to support children to notice English language patterns through well-designed class activities such as tasks, stories, songs, chants, and classroom talk within communicative approaches.

The purpose of this paper is to look into plural feature agreement for the adjunct all at LF. This adjunct shows an asymmetry between PRO and lexical NP in requiring the plural subject. In general, the adjunct all is licensed by semantic feature agreement with its subject in plurality at LF. However, the plural feature of all before INFL becomes a formal feature, affected by the formal nature of INFL. Formal feature agreement at LF requires adjacency with the subject, but semantic feature agreement does not. In this manner, we account for the asymmetry between lexical subject and PRO subject. In addition, we assume that PRO can be deleted at LF. Under this assumption, we explain why all agrees with a plural NP across the intervening PRO.

The purpose of this study is two-fold. First, this study introduces a communication approach called ‘Theory of the Coordinated Management of Meaning’(CMM) developed by W. Barnett Pearce and Vernon E. Cronen. Second, this study applies CMM as a useful theory and an appropriate analytic tool for analyzing address forms. It has been revealed that CMM theory and its symbolic apparatus provide a useful means for analyzing address forms, especially for individual and dyadic addressing behaviors. CMM shows both how intrapersonally each person arranges contextual layers for an address choice and how interpersonally the addressor coordinates with his/her addressee. In addition, CMM is shown to be useful for delineating the changes of context layers which guide address behavior changes.

Conjunctive particles of Japanese to and -tara have a common use for connecting two events. The purpose of this paper is to distinguish the usages of to and -tara in detail. The original use of to represents two events with the same subject, which occur volitionally and successively. The -tara, however, has no such usage. It connects two events with causation or explanation relation. In this case, it cannot be replaced by to.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze English and Korean aspects, with special reference to the difference between the two languages in aspectual expressions. There are two basic aspectual oppositions, namely the perfective aspect and the imperfective aspect. They can be called grammatical categories of English aspects because they are represented in the same forms as grammatical forms. They are aspectual markers in English and Korean aspect. In semantics, aspects can be classified into lexical categories such as inception, result, termination, iteration, repetition and duration, etc. There are aspectual markers in both Korean and English. However, Korean has much more aspectual markers than English. In this paper, suggest how to divide and compare the aspectual markers in English and Korean.