A Pragmatic Approach to Intervention Effect Sentences in Korean

• 발행기관: 경희대학교 언어정보연구소
• 저자명: Eun-Ju Noh
• 간행물 정보: 『언어연구』제28권 제1호, 179~197쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2011.04.30

영문 초록

In syntax, a Korean WH-question with an NP-man ‘NP-only’ is claimed to be ungrammatical if the NP-man precedes the WH-word (e.g., Beck and Kim 1997; Beck 2006). It is called the intervention effect, since, they claim, the NP-man intervenes the connection between the WH-word and its licensing Q-operator at LF. Tomioka (2007) claims that they are not ungrammatical but only pragmatically unnatural. Others (Wee 2007; Moon 2008; Moon et al. 2009) also suggest pragmatic approaches to the intervention effect. This paper reviews these pragmatic accounts, pointing out a few things to be clarified. It also presents another pragmatic account of the intervention effect in Korean, focusing on the NP-man, within the relevance-theoretic framework. This cognitive account explains why the intervention effect arises, why the judgements of an intervention-effect sentence vary among linguists, why the scrambled sentence is preferred, and why echo or echoic questions do not show the intervention effect.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Previous Accounts of Intervention Effects

3. A Cognitive Account of the Intervention Effect

4. Intervention Effects and Echo Questions

5. Conclusion

References

키워드

focus grammaticality information structure anti-topic items presupposition background information metarepresentation echo questions