Han, Jeonghan. 2010. The Cases of the More Informative Proposition Triggers in Korean. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 35-1, 291-319. The purpose of this paper is to investigate entailment relations of presuppositions triggered by the four Korean equivalents of English particle even: MACE, COCHA, LATO, and NA in terms of a set‐theoretic construction called a “scalar model (SM).” It will be claimed in this paper that, first, as with even, SMs are very useful tools in an attempt to account for the scalar properties of the four Korean particles. Second, in order to understand fully the differences among the four particles, it seems helpful to set up a further semantic branching within the notion of the “more informativeness” (Kay 1990), i.e. a ‘most’ (MACE, LATO) vs. a ‘least (COCHA, NA) informative proposition in a likelihood scale'. Third, although it is true that MACE and COCHA normally occur in negative sentences and LATO and NA in affirmative sentences, they sometimes occur on opposite sides. I attribute these seeming alternations to the unparalleled relations between the ‘negative sentence’ and the ‘positive sense (interpretation) of the negative sentence’ (or the ‘affirmative sentence’ and the ‘negative sense of the affirmative sentence’). For instance, MACE can occur in an affirmative sentence if the state of affairs in which it occurs is ‘interpreted’ as a negative (undesirable). (Dankook University)
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Abstract 1. Introduction 1.1. Four Korean Equivalents of English even 2. Previous Studies 2.1. Negative Polarity Item (NPI) MACE by I-H. Lee (1979) 2.2 An Expectation Scale by K-D. Lee (1993) 2.3. An Epistemological Analysis: J-S Seo (1994) 3. Scalar Model Analyses of MACE and COCHA; LATOand NA 3.1 English even 3.3. More Informative Proposition Triggers: MACE andCOCHA; LATO and NA 4. Conclusion Reference