Reverse Agree Is Not The Only Way To Agree: Evidence From Korean Negative Concord
- Authors
- 황주현
- Issue Date
- Apr-2024
- Publisher
- 한국중원언어학회
- Keywords
- Negative Concord; Negative Concord Items; Reverse Agree; directionality; c-command condition; fragment answer
- Citation
- 언어학 연구, no.71, pp 39 - 60
- Pages
- 22
- Indexed
- KCI
- Journal Title
- 언어학 연구
- Number
- 71
- Start Page
- 39
- End Page
- 60
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/erica/handle/2021.sw.erica/118959
- DOI
- 10.17002/sil..71.202404.39
- ISSN
- 1975-8251
2508-4259
- Abstract
- The purpose of this study is to examine whether Zeijlstra’s (2004, 2008, 2012) reverse or upward Agree for Negative Concord (NC) can be still a viable option for Korean NC. Reverse/Upward Agree allows a Goal with an interpretable feature to check its c-commanding Probe with an uninterpretable feature (cf. Wurmbrand, 2011). Reverse/Upward Agree seems to obtain an advantage over standard downward Agree (Chomsky, 2000, 2001) in that it explains the negativity of a fragment negative concord item (NCI hereafter) under the Identity Condition on ellipsis, where a covert operator with an interpretable feature [iNeg] checks off NCIs with an uninterpretable feature [uNeg]. I, however, argue that the standard Chomskyan downward Agree (Chomsky, 2000, 2001), where multiple NCIs with the [uNeg] look down their matching Goal with the [iNeg], is still able to capture NC in Korean, and that downward Agree is better to explain distinctiveness of Korean NCIs that outscope negation and asymmetrically c-command it. This paper also hints that the interpretation of NCIs in a fragmentary environment is heavily dependent on pragmatics, rather than syntax, opting for Chung (2012).
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