On Grammatically Encoding Anaphoric Definites in Korean

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Myung-Kwan Park
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제112호, 21~45쪽, 전체 25쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2021.12.24

영문 초록

This paper investigates the grammatical system of definites in Korean, concentrating on anaphoric definites. Following the proposals on definites by Schwartz (2009) and Hanink (2018), we accept the decomposition view that the determiner D encodes uniqueness, while the index argument or head is responsible for anaphoricity, linking an NP/DP with its linguistic antecedent. From these theoretical vantage points, we illuminate the Korean grammatical system of definites. We first note that Korean employs a null determiner to express unique definites in bridging contexts as well as larger and immediate situations, which is nothing special in view of this language as an article-less language. Likewise, on a par with other languages (except for Washo), Korean does not entertain any morphological exponent realizing the index argument or head for anaphoricity, so that in this language bare NPs/DPs apparently can serve as anaphoric definites in default cases. At the same time, the Korean demonstrative ku may support bare NPs/DPs, especially nominals that carry the continuing topic marker -nun or other focus particles such as –man and –to to strengthen the latter’s discourse functions.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Previous Studies on Definites: Schwarz (2009) and Hanink (2018)

3. Non-Anaphoric Unique Definite NPs/DPs in Korean

4. Anaphoric, Strongly Familiar Definite NPs/DPs in Korean

5. Conclusion

키워드

anaphoric/unique definites determiner focus particles continuing topic index argument/head