On amwuto 'anyone' and Its Kin in Korean: Their Status and Licensing as a Fragment Answer

• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Myung-Kwan Park
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제23권 제3호, 585~602쪽, 전체 17쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.08.31

영문 초록

This paper examines the indefinite expressions such as amwu-N-to 'any+N+even', etten-N-to 'ANY+N+even', and amwu-N-Case marker 'any+N+Nom/Acc' in Korean as a fragment answer to a positive wh-question. We first argue that these expressions are better analyzed as a negative concord item (NCI). Noting that they vary in acceptability as a fragment answer, we provisionally suggest that the NCIs in Korean differ in their ability to check off the negative feature (postulated for a null negative head) in fragment constructions. We also argue that the NCIs in Korean lack scrambling effects that apparently enable a certain NCI in the embedded clause to scramble to the matrix clause to enter into a licensing relation with the negative head up there.

목차

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Indefinite expressions in Korean: NPI or NCI

3. Towards an analysis

4. Summary and Conclusion

References

키워드

negative polarity item (NPI) negative concord item (NCI) indefinite expressions fragment (answer) (null) negative head negative force