Unified Clausal Approach to Wh-Constructions in Korean Revisited: An Analysis Based on Reanalysis

• 영문명: Unified Clausal Approach to Wh-Constructions in Korean Revisited: An Analysis Based on Reanalysis
• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: 윤정미(Jeong-Me Yoon)
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제14권 제1호, 3~38쪽, 전체 36쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2004.03.01

영문 초록

Wh-phrases in Korean can have various quantificational meanings depending on the kinds of quantificational elements they are associated with. Quantificational elements, which are usually called “Q(-particles),” appear in diverse syntactic positions. Despite this, there have been claims that all Q-particles in Korean can be analyzed as C's and that wh-QPs like nwukwunka 'somebody' have clausal structures (Suh 1989, etc.) The goal of this paper is twofold. First, I show how this approach, which I will call the Unified Clausal Approach, following Chung (1996), could provide a principled explanation for some gaps in the distribution of wh-phrases and Q-particles in Korean. Second, I provide explanations for the very basic question of the Unified Clausal Approach, i.e., if all wh-QPs have clausal structures, why and how some wh-QPs are perceived by most native speakers as nominal, not clausal, arguments of a predicate and show various syntactic properties as such. My claim is that some wh-QPs lost their complex clausal structures and underwent reanalysis as nominal categories. As arguments for this claim, I show that some properties of wh-QPs cannot be explained adequately unless we assume that they were reanalyzed as nominal categories. I also show that the various properties of wh-QPs fit the prototypical pattern of reanalysis/grammaticalization.

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Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Distribution of Wh-Phrases and Q's in Korean

3. Unified Clausal Approach to Wh-Constructions in Korean

4. Explaining the Gaps

5. How to Represent Wh-QPs Syntactically: Reanalysis

6. Q-particles vs. Delimiters: Further Arguments for Unified Clausal Approach and Reanalysis

7. Conclusion

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