Why is HOW in Korean Insensitive to Islands?: A Revised Nominal Analysis
- Authors
- 정대호
- Issue Date
- Mar-2005
- Publisher
- 현대문법학회
- Keywords
- Island Effects; WH-element; D-linking; Nominal; Binding; Movement
- Citation
- 현대문법연구, no.39, pp.115 - 131
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- KCI
- Journal Title
- 현대문법연구
- Number
- 39
- Start Page
- 115
- End Page
- 131
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/erica/handle/2021.sw.erica/46406
- ISSN
- 1226-3206
- Abstract
- Korean HOW, i.e. ettehkey, unlike its English counterpart, i.e. how, does not show island effects. There have been several approaches entertained in the literature to account for the island insensitivity:T. Chung's (1991) VP adjunct analysis and an ECP account; D. Chung's (1996) nominal analysis and a binding account; Yang's (1997) d-linking analysis and an ECP account; and D. Chung's (2000a) predicate analysis and an ECP account. As reviewed in Chung (2000a), the first two analyses bear some critical empirical and/or theoretical problems. Pointing out that the third and fourth approaches also face some empirical and/or theoretical problems, this paper proposes an alternative analysis, a revised nominal analysis, in which ettehkey is decomposed into four sub-parts: e-tte-ha-key, 'Det-N-do-adverbializer'. The second element, i.e. -tte, is diagnosed as a nominal element because the first element, i.e. e-, as a determiner, requires a nominal complement and the third element, i.e. -ha, as a transitive verb, requires a nominal complement. The proposed analysis gains support from the morphological paradigms that Korean WH-elements display. Given this revised nominal analysis, the scope of HOW in Korean can be licensed via binding, accounting for the lack of island effects.
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