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On amwuto ‘anyone’ and Its Kin in Korean: Their Status and Licensing as a Fragment Answeropen accessOn amwuto ‘anyone’ and Its Kin in Korean: Their Status and Licensing as a Fragment Answer
- Other Titles
- On amwuto ‘anyone’ and Its Kin in Korean: Their Status and Licensing as a Fragment Answer
- Authors
- 박명관
- Issue Date
- Aug-2013
- Publisher
- 한국생성문법학회
- Keywords
- negative polarity item (NPI); negative concord item (NCI); indefinite expressions; fragment (answer); (null) negative head; negative force
- Citation
- 생성문법연구, v.23, no.3, pp 585 - 602
- Pages
- 18
- Indexed
- KCI
- Journal Title
- 생성문법연구
- Volume
- 23
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 585
- End Page
- 602
- ISSN
- 1225-6048
2713-5454
- Abstract
- 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.
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- Park, Myung Kwan
- College of Humanities (Division of English Language and Literature)