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Kim, Yong-Suk. 2012. Toward a Syntax without T. Korean Journal of Linguistics 37-1, 47-67. This paper doubts the existence of the tense-category T along the line of Kim's(2010a, 2010b) assumption of lexical categorization. I show that the adoption of T-category to the syntactic description of natural languages gives rise to a variety of undesirable imperfections within the grammatical systems like Chomsky's(2001, 2004, 2005a, 2005b) Probe-Goal Framework, and argue that the imperfections and the empirical problems attributed to them, including three troublesome mysteries, can be completely solved under the framework of so-called 'Syntax without T-Category,' which is proposed in this paper. It also comes to light in this paper that CP is only the cyclic phase for the computation of narrow syntax, and vP conjugated with v*P is nothing but a sematic unit of 'proposition' rather than cyclic phase, under which claim all the problematic issues ascribed to the conception of strong phase v*P automatically disappear. (Hansung University)