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A Study on the “XP가 왜” and “왜 XP가” in Korean

  • Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
  • 2021, 78(4), pp.375-403
  • DOI : 10.17326/jhsnu.78.4.202111.375
  • Publisher : Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : October 12, 2021
  • Accepted : November 3, 2021
  • Published : November 30, 2021

Kwon, Seon-young 1

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ABSTRACT

This paper aims to analyze ‘fragmental utterance’ such as “XP가 왜?” and “왜 XP가?”, and reviews the discussions on the question adverbs ‘왜’ and the subject marker ‘-이/가’. By comparing them through the fragmental utterance, it is possible to present doubts about whether ‘왜’ is a sentence adverb. It is also confirmed that the noun phrase with ‘-이/가’ can become the focus, regardless of word order. Multiple fragmentary sentences such as “XP가 왜?” and “왜 XP가?” are created by 'multiple ellipsis' from different sentences, not by 'move-and-delete' from the same sentence. It is significant that the fragmental utterance is useful for grammatical analysis.

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