Positional Restrictions on Multiple NPIs in Korean
- Authors
- 황주현
- Issue Date
- Oct-2016
- Publisher
- 한국중원언어학회
- Keywords
- NPI particles; word order; focus movement; intervention effects; NPI licensing
- Citation
- 언어학 연구, no.41, pp.419 - 438
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- KCI
- Journal Title
- 언어학 연구
- Number
- 41
- Start Page
- 419
- End Page
- 438
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/erica/handle/2021.sw.erica/15057
- DOI
- 10.17002/sil..41.201610.419
- ISSN
- 1975-8251
- Abstract
- The primary purpose of this paper is to investigate word order restrictions on multiple NPIs in Korean, focusing on the interactions among N-pakkey ‘exclusive only N’, amwu-(N)-to ‘any N’ and han-(N)-to ‘even one N’. While questioning grammaticality judgments established by previous studies (Kuno and Whitman 2004, Sells 2006), this paper first represents a new set of data revealing that N-pakkey is required to occupy the leftmost position of a sentence when cooccuring with to-NPIs, whereas the two different forms of to-NPIs are unconstrained. Following Horvath (2007)’s Exhaustive Identification (EI) operator that triggers focus movement into a sentence-initial position, this paper suggests that the exceptive meaning of N-pakkey introduces the EI operator that makes the non-leftmost N-pakkey move into the sentence-initial position, which salvages the grammaticality of a sentence. This paper further suggests that the word order restrictions on multiple NPIs accord with an intervention effect on NPI licensing (Linebarger 1987) where the EI-associated N-pakkey plays an intervening role in the interpretation of to-NPIs.
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