Towards an Analysis of Non-negative Questions with Negation in Korean

• 영문명: Towards an Analysis of Non-negative Questions with Negation in Korean
• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Heesun Yang Suyoung Bae
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제33권 제1호, 93~112쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.02.28

영문 초록

The main purpose of this paper is to give an account of two different interrogatives with long-form negation (LFN) in Korean, with special attention to the polarity of the sentence. The crucial data consists of non-negative interrogative constructions involving LFN following tense. We argue that there are two different loci for LFNs in Korean and each LFN serves a different role, depending on its structural position with respect to PolP (e.g. polarity or Verum Focus marker). We try to explain the non-negativity of LFN following tense at issue under a syntactic analysis, claiming it is the by-product of the unsuccessful culmination of the agreement between PolP and NegP (cf. Preminger 2014). Furthermore, we offer the novel perspective of the non-negative LFN interrogative as a type of tag question in Korean. This article therefore sheds new light on the distribution of negation in interrogatives and its role as an overtly realized Verum marker.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Analysis

3. Additional evidence for non-negative negation

4. Conclusion

References

키워드

negation polarity tag question verum focus