Semantics and Syntax of Correlative Adverbs

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper concerns the syntax and semantics of a set of adverbs, dubbed as Correlative Adverbs (CAs), that apparently have no semantic content but pair with particular functional elements in Korean. For example, adverbs simcie and tanci pair with delimiters -kkaci/-to/-mace 'even' and -man 'only', respectively, and adverbs pilok and manil cooccur with a concessive complementizer and a conditional complementizer, respectively. (See Kim 1996, Park 1996, Ym 1999, and Chae 2002a,b, ChlU1g 2003, among others.) It will be observed that such CAs function as focus scope barriers. Their status as focus scope barriers is ascribed to the syntactic position they assume, i.e., at the edge (SPEC) of the associated functional categories, marking the left edge of the focus scope, analogous to Sahn's (1995) positioning negative polarity items at the left edge of NegP. Two alternative approaches, i.e., Chae's (2002a,b, 2004) IPSG (Indexed Phrase Structure Grammar) analysis and an LF raising/agree analysis will be discussed but ultimately rejected due to some empirical and theoretical problems they bear.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Abstract
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Focus Association and CAs as Focus Scope Barriers
• 3. On the Syntactic Position of CAs
• 4. Some Alternative Analyses
• References