Under an unselectively binding analysis, it has been argued that island (in)sensitivity of wh-in situ falls under the so-called Noun versus Adverb Generalization (NAG), which states that an in-situ wh-phrase is island-free iff it is (or contains) a wh-nominal (Tsai, 1994ab 1999, 2008; Stepanov & Tsai, 2008; Fujii et al., 2014). In this study, however, we show that the NAG is not sufficient to capture the island behaviors of some (non-)standard in-situ wh-phrases in Korean. Borrowing insights from Murphy (2017), we instead suggest that the island-(in)sensitivity of in-situ wh-phrases in Korean may correlate not with their semantic or categorial status, but with their base-generated positions in syntax. Specifically, we suggest that an in-situ wh-phrase that is base-generated in the CP domain is island-sensitive, while an in-situ wh-phrase that is base-generated below CP or TP is island-insensitive.
목차
Abstract 1. The puzzle 2. Review of Previous Analyses 2.1 Huang (1982ab): LF-movement and Empty Category Principle 2.2 Reinhart (1998) and Tsai (1994ab, 1999, 2008): Semantics- or Category-based Unselective Binding 3. Counterexamples to the Previous Analyses 3.1 Rethinking How-questions in Korean 3.2 What as Why-questions in Korean 4. Correlation between Island (In)sensitivity and Base Positions of Wh-in situ 4.1 Syntactic Positions of the Two Variants of Ecci 4.2 Syntactic Position of Nominal Wh-adjunct Mwe-l 4.3 Island (In)sensitivity and Base Positions of Other In-situ Wh-phrases in Korean 5. Conclusion and Future Work References
키워드
island sensitivity(non-)standard wh-questionsunselective bindingcategory-basedNoun versus Adverb Generalization
저자
Okgi Kim [ Kyung Hee University / Academic Research Professor ]
First Author
Seulkee Park [ Kyung Hee University / Lecturer ]
Corresponding Author
한국언어연구학회 [The Korean Association of Language Studies]
설립연도
1996
분야
인문학>언어학
소개
한국언어연구학회는 언어학과 언어교육 분야의 연구를 통하하여 학문의 질적 향상과 국내외 회원 및 학회간의 학술 교류와 친목을 도모한다. 이를 위해 학술 연구 발표회, 강연회, 강습회를 개최하고, 정기학회지, 연구보고서, 서적 등을 간행하며, 그 밖에 지역사회에 필요한 사업과 연구 활동을 수행하는데 중점을 두고 있다.