한국언어과학회

Considerable attention is paid to how to derive fragments that nonetheless yields a full-fledged clausal interpretation to achieve an explanation of how elided fragments are realized at syntax. The quest of answering these questions has led to exciting research that explore our understanding of how language works. The primary goal of this paper is to showⅰ) its syntactic properties of Fragmentary Questions(FQs) in Korean, highlighting the theoretical implications for contemporary theories of ellipsis. FQs in Korean are derived by the movement of a contrastive topic marked remnant to the CP, followed by clausal deletion. As well, ⅱ) Fragments in English and FQs in Korean can be explained in a unified way by exploiting Chomsky’s (2013,2015) labeling algorithm. This paper also aims to present the possibility that labels of remnants in FQs in Korean play a crucial role to be fully interpreted at Conceptual-Intentional(CI) Interface.