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This paper deals with peculiar distribution of the seeming plural marker -tul from Korean--the licensing plural subject does not appear to c-command this marker. I suggest that the plural subject in such a problematic situation raises to a higher position to meet the c-command condition. Observing that the licensing plural subject carries focus, I identify this movement as focus movement. I argue that the relevant derivations can successfully proceed under the SVO hypothesis associated with the head-initial structure in Korean, but not under the SOV hypothesis associated with the head-final structure. Consequently, the current result supports Kayne's (1994) universal Specifier-head-complement order hypothesis, thereby helping eliminate the head-parameter in the computation in line with recent minimalism (Chomsky 2005). |