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This paper investigates the emphatic use of demonstrative ku in Korean. Demonstrative ku has been well-known to indicate a deictic as well as anaphoric definite meaning. However, not much attention has been paid to its emphatic use. Literature on this topic is scarce; there has only been one study in Kang (2018) that provides a pragmatic analysis of emphatic ku. This paper examines the distribution of emphatic ku in comparison with a stressed demonstrative nominal (e.g., that CREEP) in English. It is proposed that emphatic ku is similar to an English stressed demonstrative nominal by not being used as a focal element, but by being used to indicate emphasis, building on its syntactic, semantic, and prosodic properties. It is also shown that emphatic ku is distinct from anaphoric ku. Emphatic ku modifies an adjective as an intensifier, while anaphoric ku occupies the specifier of DP as a function word. In addition, emphatic and anaphoric ku are shown to have distinct prosodic properties: namely, emphatic ku has a prosodically longer duration and carries the LH pitch pattern associated with an Accentual Phrase (AP) in Korean prosody, while anaphoric ku is shorter and carries either flat or falling pitch, indicating that it does not initiate a prosodic AP.

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I. Introduction
II. Emphatic ku as a Focus Marker
III. Focal Stress and Co-referentiality
IV. Non-focal Stress and Co-reference
V. KU: not focal but emphatic
VI. Prosodic properties of KU
VII. The Syntax-prosody Interfac
VIII. Conclusion
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• Kim, Kyumin [ Chungbuk National University ]
• Elfner, Emily [ York University ] First Author

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

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• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

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  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810