Remarks on Defining Korean NPIs in terms of Negation Strength
- Title
- Remarks on Defining Korean NPIs in terms of Negation Strength
- Author
- 정대호
- Keywords
- negation; negative polarity item (NPI); Boolean semantics; negation strength; scope ambiguity; categorial grammar
- Issue Date
- 2009-12
- Publisher
- 한국언어정보학회
- Citation
- 언어와 정보, v. 13, NO. 2, Page. 47-57
- Abstract
- It has been observed that not all negative polarity items (NPIs) are licensed in the same negative contexts, and different NPIs may be licensed by different negative expressions. This shows that Ladusaw's (1979) downward entailment is not precise enough to account for the distributional patterns of NPIs (van der Wouden, 1997; van der Wouden and Zwarts, 1993; Zwarts, 1986, among others). One well-known attempt to deal with this issue is
to divide negative expressions into several subtypes. Using boolean semantics, Zwarts (1986; 1998) distinguishes three kinds of downward entailing licensors and accounts for heterogeneous NPI-licensing conditions by means of the semantic strength of negative expressions. This approach has been adopted to define Korean negation (Nam, 1994; Chung, 1993; Chung, 1997; Hwang, 2009). In this paper, however, we argue that the boolean semantic approach for negation is not adequate in characterizing the properties of Korean negative expressions and explaining the contexts of licensing Korean NPIs.
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- https://kiss.kstudy.com/thesis/thesis-view.asp?key=2818877https://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/184483
- ISSN
- 1226-7430
- DOI
- 10.29403/LI.13.2.3
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- COLLEGE OF LANGUAGES & CULTURES[E](국제문화대학) > ENGLISH LANGUAGE & CULTURE(영미언어·문화학과) > Articles
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