The ultimate goal of this paper is to provide an in-depth analysis of the interpretations induced by conjunct NPs and Korean anaphors. One important observation is that, in local contexts, caki ‘self’ can function both as a pronoun and as an anaphor, whereas with conjunct NPs it behaves as a pronoun. Furthermore, non-local caki ‘self’ and caki-casin ‘self-self’ denotes a singular entity whose referent must be singular. This property enables them to yield both distributive and bound-variable readings with respect to conjunct NPs and quantified phrases (QPs). When the plural morpheme tul ‘PL’ is attached to caki ‘self’, it triggers the interpretation “x and others.” By contrast, when tul ‘PL’ is attached to caki-casin ‘self-self’, this interpretation does not arise. Finally, this paper argues that the distributive and collective readings induced by Korean anaphors can be explained in terms of Chomsky’s(2019a, 2019b) operations of Merge and Transfer.
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Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Methodology and Previous Approaches 2.1. Methodology 2.2. Previous Approaches 3. Results 3.1. Caki ‘self’ and Its Local Binding 3.2. Caki-casin ‘self-self’ and Its Local Binding 3.3. Caki ‘self’ and Non-Local Binding 3.4. Caki-Casin and Non-Local Binding 3.5. The Suffix Tul and Korean Anaphors 3.6. Two Readings in Chomsky(2019a, 2019b) 4. Further Remarks 5. Conclusion References