The main purpose of this paper is to examine the syntactic and semantic differences in two types of multiple negative sensitive item constructions which include pakkey (shika) ‘only’ and Indeterminate-to (mo) in Korean and Japanese. The arguments ...
The main purpose of this paper is to examine the syntactic and semantic differences in two types of multiple negative sensitive item constructions which include pakkey (shika) ‘only’ and Indeterminate-to (mo) in Korean and Japanese. The arguments of this paper are as follows: (i) Two types of MNCs with pakkey (shika) and Indeterminate-to (mo) exist and their syntactic structures are different. (ii) For the first type of MNC, pakkey (shika) and Indeterminate-to (mo) form a single constituent, which we define as a single constituency hypothesis. (iii) For the second type of MNC, pakkey (shika) and Indeterminate-to (mo) form not a single constituent but a different one, which we call the base-generation hypothesis.