‘-을 수 있다’ 양태구문의 통사구조와 부정극어 인허

• 영문명: A Syntactic Structure of Korean Modal –ul swu issta Construction and NPI-licensing
• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: 박소영(Park, So-Young)
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제32권 제1호, 75~96쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2022.02.28

영문 초록

This paper explores NPI-licensing in Korean modal –ul swu issta construction, which is ambiguous between root and epistemic modality. In analyzing this construction, previous literature has concentrated mostly on the semantics of issta, which may have a possession or an existence reading. This paper, however, considers the whole of –ul swu issta as the realization of a Mod head, whose interpretation varies depending on its syntactic merge sites; when merged with a vP, it is construed as root modality. When merged in a position above TP, it realizes epistemic modality. Such a structure, coupled with scrambling, can explain the full paradigm of NPI-licensing. In addition, it offers a natural account to interpretations of nominative or topic subjects when matched with stageor individual-level predicates, which existing analyses fail to provide.

목차

1. 서론

2. 선행연구 검토

3. 대안적 분석

4. 확장: 화제 vs. 대조적 화제 해석

5. 결론

키워드

epistemic vs. root modality NPI-licensing scrambling topic