Wh-island Effects of Wh-in-situ in Two Types of Wh-in-situ Languages - A Processing Account

• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Jeong-Me Yoon
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제23권 제4호, 845~866쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.11.30

영문 초록

Wh-in-situ in Korean are known to show wh-island effects while those in Chinese do not. In this paper, I show that a simple explanation for this difference can be found if we recognize that wh-in-situ questions with a non-local wh-Q association are garden path sentences and that what we call the wh-island effects of wh-in-situ in Korean is not the unacceptability of wh-in-situ questions with a non-local wh-Q association but the high likelihood of misinterpreting such sentences as having the local scope. If so, the question why wh-in-situ in Chinese do not show wh-island effects can be recast as why wh-in-situ questions with a non-local wh-Q association in Chinese are not or less prone to such a misinterpretation, and an answer for this question can be found in some trivial differences in the use of Q-particles between the two languages. As further support, I show that some of the intra-linguistic variations in wh-island in Korean can be explained in the same ways the absence of wh-island effects in Chinese is explained. I also explore the possibility that this account can be extended to other wh-in-situ languages.

목차

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Reinterpreting Wh-island Effects of Wh-in-Situ in Korean

3. Explaining the Absence of Wh-island Effects in Chinese

4. Variations in the Wh-island Effects of Wh-in-situ in Korean

5. Extending the Proposal to Other Wh-in-Situ Languages

6. Concluding Remarks

References

키워드

wh-island effects wh-in-situ Q-particles garden path sentences reprocessing(reanalysis)