Remarks on the Antecedent of Meta-why Questions: A Reply to Park (2023)

• 영문명: Remarks on the Antecedent of Meta-why Questions: A Reply to Park (2023)
• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: 박종언
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제33권 제3호, 369~383쪽, 전체 15쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.08.31

영문 초록

Meta-why questions are an understudied fragmentary question consisting of the wh-phrase why only. They are used when the speaker wants to know why the other interlocutor raised an original question in a context. Recently, Woods and Vicente (2021) examine meta-why questions in English, and Park (2023) argues, building on them, that the same type of questions exist in Korean as well. According to these studies, meta-why questions in English and Korean can be legitimately used only when their antecedents are genuine questions. This squib aims to report apparently challenging data, where declaratives or even non-verbal behavior appears to serve as an antecedent of meta-why questions in Korean. It is shown that declaratives can feed the legitimate use of a meta-why question, while only very limited cases of nonverbal behavior can license it. The squib ends with a brief discussion of what these challenging data suggest to Park’s analysis.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Distribution of Meta-why Questions in Korean

3. Challenging Data

4. Concluding Remarks

References

키워드

meta-why question genuine question declarative non-verbal behavior speech act illocutionary act