Two types of question and existential quantification
- Authors
- Jang, YJ
- Issue Date
- Sep-1999
- Publisher
- MOUTON DE GRUYTER
- Citation
- LINGUISTICS, v.37, no.5, pp 847 - 869
- Pages
- 23
- Journal Title
- LINGUISTICS
- Volume
- 37
- Number
- 5
- Start Page
- 847
- End Page
- 869
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/47426
- DOI
- 10.1515/ling.37.5.847
- ISSN
- 0024-3949
- Abstract
- The purpose of this paper is twofold: one goal is to establish that in languages like Korean question clauses are best characterized if classified into self-addressed vs, hearer-addressed questions, which are shown to be morphologically distinguished, along with the distinction of wh- vs. yes-no questions. The other is to show that the so-called existential quantifiers (or indeterminate nouns) ave in fact embedded self-addressed questions, contra Kim's (1989, 1990) claim that Korean wh-phrases are pure quantifiers undergoing LF quantifier raising. I also show that the long standing "ambiguity problem" is only apparent: A wh-phvase, if c-commanded by a self-addressed question marker, gets interpreted as an existential quantifier, while it is interpreted as a pure wh-word if c-commanded by a hearer-addressed question marker.
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