Overt Wh-Word Fronting in Korean RevisitedOvert Wh-Word Fronting in Korean Revisited
- Other Titles
- Overt Wh-Word Fronting in Korean Revisited
- Authors
- 최영식
- Issue Date
- 2019
- Publisher
- 현대문법학회
- Keywords
- indefinite; cleft; adjunct wh-word; non-indefinite; focus
- Citation
- 현대문법연구, no.101, pp.19 - 40
- Journal Title
- 현대문법연구
- Number
- 101
- Start Page
- 19
- End Page
- 40
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/sch/handle/2021.sw.sch/5237
- ISSN
- 1226-3206
- Abstract
- The nature of fronted wh-words in Korean type languages has been a topic of great controversy, with the widely held assumption being that they behave in a uniform fashion (Hoji 1985, Saito 1989, Takahashi 1993, 1994, Choe 1994, Cheng 1997, Bošković 1999). I challenge this common view, following the original proposal by Choi (2007b), claiming that the fronted wh-words in Korean are a heterogeneous set in that indefinite wh-words constitute focus movement, whereas the non-indefinite adjunct wh-word way ‘why’ is wh-movement. The heterogeneous nature of the fronted wh-words nicely deals with the contrast in superiority and wh-island effects along with the contrast in the cleft construction.
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