Il fenomeno dell'ellissi nel coreano

My work aims to present one of the arguments that cover the second part of my manuscript: reduction phenomena in Korean. Being a situation-oriented language, Korean allows all major constituents of sentences, including noun phrases and predicates, to be left unexpressed if discoursally or situationally recoverable (Sohn 1999: 401). Korean topics with the function of subject or object have a high level of freedom, allowing the extensive use of null argument. These ellipses are mostly optional and easily inferred from a preceding utterance. The zero pronoun is a linguistic phenomenon very common in Korean, especially in colloquial speech, but largely ruled by the main sentence. These phenomena will be analyzed through a series of concrete examples.