Defaults, Tense, and Non-Tensed Verbal Coordination

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Cho, Sae-Youn. 2006. Defaults, Tense, and Non-tensed Verbal Coordination. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 14(3), 195-214. Unlike English coordination, only the final conjunct needs to be marked with the tense feature in Korean. To capture the generalizations on the distributional behaviors of morpho-syntactic features in Non-Tensed Verbal Coordination Structure (NTC), Yoon (1994) claims that the overtly projected T combines with coordinated bare VPs and that T has its scope over all coordinated VPs. Against Yoon (1994)'s claim, Chung (2001) argues that NTC with asymmetric reading must be analyzed as TP coordination where a null T is postulated in non-final conjuncts. On the other hand, Lee (2004) based on Yoon (1994) proposes that when the conjunct is c-commanded by the T, this gives rise to symmetric tense interpretations, whereas when there is a temporal adverb in the conjunct, the adverb takes precedence over the c-commanding tense in providing temporal interpretation. However, the two previous analyses seem to face theoretical and empirical difficulties. To cope with the difficulties, I claim that the temporal interpretations of the non-final conjuncts of NTC can be obtained in terms of the interaction between temporal adverbs and the T dominating all conjuncts.

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