Lee, Doo-Won. 2014. Negative Imperatives Revisited. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 39-1, 133-153. At PF, when the merger of the morphological features takes place in Korean, the negative imperatives are ungrammatical, if negation blocks the [imp] feature in C from merging with the verb. Short/long form Neg (hereafter, SFN/LFN) is a head of NegP between vP and TP and mal 'don't' in negative imperatives is a lexical spell-out of a combination of Neg and [Imp-Op] in C. Hence, while mal-negative imperatives are possible, short/long form negative imperatives are not. SFN is a syntactic construction, not a prefix attachment. In this vein, the SFN imperative of the morphological causative construction is ungrammatical. When negative prefixes such as pwul, pi, and mi are attached to a predicate, imperatives can be formed with the predicate because there is no functional head Neg which blocks the [Imp] feature in C from merging with the verb. These suppletive forms such as molu(-ta) 'not know' and eps(-ta) 'not exist' behave like other regular short-form syntactic negations (Chung 2007b). This is why the imperatives of suppletive negations are ungrammatical. (Korea National University of Transportation)
목차
Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Previous Researches 2.1 Miyoshi (2002) & Bošković (2004) 2.2 Sells (2004) and Han & Lee (2007) 3. Short-form Negation as Syntactic Negation 4. Negative Imperatives 4.1 Negative-prefixal Imperatives 4.2 SFN and LFN Imperatives 4.3 Imperatives of Suppletive Negations 4.4 Further Discussions 5. Conclusion References
키워드
Imp-OpmalNegnegative imperativenegative prefixPFSFNspell-outsuppletive form
저자
Doo-Won Lee [ Korea National University of Transportation ]