Numeral Floated Quantifiers in Korean: Case and Beyond

Abstract

I argue that i and ul on the associate NP in Korean numeral floated quantifier constructions are topic markers, whereas the same morphemes on the numeral floated quantifier phrase are case morphemes, which is quite against the standard view in Korean literature. The interesting patterns of syntactic dependency of the associate NP and the numeral floated quantifier, which the proposal for adjacency fails to address adequately, follows from the present proposal on the nature of i and ul and constraints on deletion of case in Korean numeral floated quantifier constructions.