Jungha Hong (Research Institute for Language & Information, Korea University). 2010. Subject-Object Asymmetries of NPs without Markers and their Meaning: Morphological Realization . Language Information . Volume 11. 119-138.
Most of previous studies regard Korean NPs without markers as case marker drop, and subject-object asymmetries as the markedness on overt and covert case markers. This paper aims to explore what subject-object asymmetries of NPs without markers mean in Korean makers system, as found in the 21 Century Sejong Treebank. An interesting observation is that these phenomena are related to the markedness on morphological realization and non-realization in Korean markers system. This seems to be an evidence that NPs without markers are not case marker drop.
Key words: Subject-Object Asymmetries, NPs without Markers, Morphological Realization, Markedness, Grammatical Relation, Definiteness, Treebank