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An analysis of Double Nominative in Korean from the viewpoint of Information Structure

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2010, 31(), pp.1-22
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

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ABSTRACT

This study illustrates the information structure of double nominative constructions in Korean. In previous studies, the first NP of the constructions is usually called Topic or Focus. In this paper, however, I argue that there is no fixed information structure of double nominative constructions in Korean, except that class-member type, among the four types of double nominative constructions, has the fixed information structure. I also argue that the first NP in the double nominative constructions of class-member type is Topic, and the second NP is Focus. There are much evidence that can support my argument. First, the first NP of this type satisfies the condition of aboutness. Second, the first NP of class-member type of double nominative constructions does not fall in the scope of negation, which is one of the well-known properties of Topic. Third, the semantic relationship between the first and the second NP of this type matches with contrastive meaning of Focus. Fourth, It is well-known that in a sentence in which the subject is focus and the predicate is an individual-level one, the subject NP bears exhaustivity, which is the case of the second NP of class-member type. Fifth, whereas the first NP of this type can’t be transformed to clefted constituent of the cleft sentence, the second NP can. Sixth, the second NP can be represented with prominence while the first NP can’t. Last but not least, the first NP can’t be new information in question-answer pairs.

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