Complex Verb Constructions in Child Korean: Overt Markers of Covert Functional Structure

摘要: In this paper we will apply to Korean the standard techniques which have been used show that young children represent functional projections mainly for European languages. And what find is following: First, suggest over-use of default mood-inflection '-e' in earliest speech one two-year old parallels root infinitive forms observed other Second, absence inflectional morphemes and correlations between specific verb null-subjects, or tense markers, seem be consistent with view initially only lexical categories. Despite apparently strong evidence a prefunctional analysis child syntax, argue systematic presence linking morpheme '-ko-' truncated auxiliary constructions implies at least some level structure represented, even when it never produced.