Focus-movement and Island-sensitivity: Focusing on Contrastive Fragments

• 영문명: Focus-movement and Island-sensitivity: Focusing on Contrastive Fragments
• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Gui-Sun Moon
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제33권 제2호, 233~258쪽, 전체 26쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.05.31

영문 초록

The main goal of this paper is twofold. First, I argue that covert focus movement is not affected by island constraints, contrary to Erlewine and Kotek's (2018) proposal, while accepting the focus movement approach for interpretation. I demonstrate that this argument can be supported by contrastive fragment answers, stripping examples, and Tanglewood configurations involving island domains. I also present new empirical evidence for the argument that overt but not covert focus movement is island-sensitive, using examples including weak quantifiers such as 'mwuenka' (what, something) and 'nwukwunka' (who, someone) in Korean, which can receive focus. Secondly, I compare the semantic formulas of the English focus adverb 'only' and the contrastive focus operator (∅F) and demonstrate the process by which the interpretation of these focus operators is computed. Furthermore, I illustrate the semantic formulas of the two focus operators can successfully capture the difference and sameness in meaning between them.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Island-sensitive Contrastive fragments

3. Evidence for Focus Movement

4. Semantics of Focus Operators

5. Focus-Movement and Island Sensitivity

6. Summary and Conclusion

References

키워드

overt and covert focus movement contrastive fragment answers stripping Tanglewood configurations island sensitivity contrastive focus operator (∅F) focus-sensitive adverb only Korean weak quantifiers