Null Objects in Korean

Experimental Evidence for the Argument Ellipsis Analysis

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3153161
AutoresChung-Hye Han (Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada), Chung–hye Han (Simon Fraser University, autor correspondente), Kyeong-Min Kim (Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada, autor correspondente), Keir Moulton (0000-0001-8087-9040, University of Toronto, autor correspondente), Jeffrey Lidz (0000-0001-8829-1495, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume51
Fascículo2
Páginas319-340
Data de publicação2020-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLinguistic Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0024-3892 • E-ISSN: 1530-9150
EditoraThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/ling_a_00342
OpenAlexW2943921606
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas30

Null object (NO) constructions in Korean and Japanese have received different accounts: as (a) argument ellipsis ( Oku 1998 , S. Kim 1999 , Saito 2007 , Sakamoto 2015 ), (b) VP-ellipsis after verb raising ( Otani and Whitman 1991 , Funakoshi 2016 ), or (c) instances of base-generated pro ( Park 1997 , Hoji 1998 , 2003 ). We report results from two experiments supporting the argument ellipsis analysis for Korean. Experiment 1 builds on K.-M. Kim and Han's (2016) finding of interspeaker variation in whether the pronoun ku can be bound by a quantifier. Results showed that a speaker's acceptance of quantifier-bound ku positively correlates with acceptance of sloppy readings in NO sentences. We argue that an ellipsis account, in which the NO site contains internal structure hosting the pronoun, accounts for this correlation. Experiment 2, testing the recovery of adverbials in NO sentences, showed that only the object (not the adverb) can be recovered in the NO site, excluding the possibility of VP-ellipsis. Taken together, our findings suggest that NOs result from argument ellipsis in Korean

Adverb · Argument (complex analysis) · Ellipsis (linguistics) · Linguistics · Object (grammar) · Pronoun · Quantifier (linguistics) · Raising (metalworking) · Verb · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Topic Modeling