Korean Specificational Pseudoclefts as Caseless Focus Nominal Extraction

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21398693
AutoresDongwoo Park (0000-0003-2681-5366, Department of English Language and Literature Korea National Open University Main Building 318, 86 Daehak‐ro, Jongno‐gu Seoul Korea, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume75
Fascículo3
Páginas538-574
Data de publicação2021-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoStudia Linguistica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0039-3193 • E-ISSN: 1467-9582
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/stul.12169
OpenAlexW3197900489
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas34

Korean specificational pseudoclefts exhibit a paradox. On the one hand, anaphor binding facts indicate that the pivot (or an element co‐indexed with it) must originate in a position located within the presupposition CP. Nonetheless, specificational pseudoclefts appear to be island‐insensitive. To resolve this paradox, I propose an extraction analysis whereby only caseless focus nominals base‐generated in the complement position of verbs or in the left‐periphery of the presupposition CP may function as pivots, and reach their surface position. This proposal has several implications. First, caseless nominals are structurally reduced, when compared to case‐marked nominals containing a case projection. Second, caseless nominals base‐generated in the left‐periphery of CPs can be foci conveying contrastive (exhaustive) new information. Third, anaphor connectivity effects are tied to syntactic movement of focus phrases and reconstruction. Lastly, specificational pseudoclefts and copular constructions do not have the same underlying structure

Algorithm · Complement (music) · Focus (optics) · Linguistics · Physics · Position (finance) · Presupposition · Projection (relational algebra) · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation