Marking definiteness in an articleless language

IF 0.2 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Arum Kang
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The main purpose of this paper is to identify the novel type of Korean definiteness marker. Especially I show that Korean KU which originated from the morphological demonstrative ‘that’, instantiates a solid pattern of distribution of definiteness marker. Mainly focusing on the semantico-pragmatic role of KU, the proposal comprises three main parts: (i) Given that Korean employs distinct devices teased apart into uniqueness (i.e. referential use) and familiarity (i.e. anaphoric use) in its definiteness system, I show that the effect of referential use in argument saturating function is achieved by the covert “determiner” in bare nouns, whereas anaphoric use in argument non-saturating function is achieved by the overt KU; (ii) The semantic contribution of KU is analyzed as a domain restrictor (DDR; Etxeberria & Giannakidou 2010) which supplies an indexical property as an argument (Schwarz 2009, 2013; Jenks 2018); (iii) I further show that the DDR operator is present in the syntax, falling out from the standard D position as an adjunctive modifier in a lower DP layer. The contribution of my work is that the proposed account allows us to widen our view of cross-linguistic variation to cases where the prerequisite of definiteness is based on the dissociation of meaning (i.e. the semantic role of D as encoding familiarity) and form (i.e. the syntactic role of D as an argument-building function).
无冠词语言中的定义标记
本文的主要目的是鉴定一种新型的韩国语明确标记语。我特别指出,源于形态指示性“that”的韩语KU,体现了一种确定标记的固定分布模式。该建议主要关注KU的语义语用作用,包括三个主要部分:(i)考虑到韩国语在其确定性系统中使用独特的设备,分为独特性(即指称使用)和熟悉性(即回指使用),我表明,在论证饱和功能中,指称使用的效果是通过在裸名词中隐蔽的“限定词”实现的,而在论证非饱和功能中,回指使用是通过公开的KU实现的;(ii)将KU的语义贡献作为域限制器(DDR)进行分析;Etxeberria & Giannakidou 2010),它提供了一个索引属性作为参数(Schwarz 2009, 2013;詹金斯2018);(iii)我进一步表明,DDR运算符存在于语法中,从标准D位置作为较低DP层的辅助修饰语掉出来。我的工作的贡献在于,所提出的解释使我们能够扩大我们对跨语言变化的看法,在这种情况下,确定性的先决条件是基于意义的分离(即D作为编码熟悉度的语义角色)和形式(即D作为论据构建功能的句法角色)。
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期刊介绍: LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS (ISSN:1606-822X; Online ISSN: 2309-5067) is an academic publication of the Institute of Linguistics at Academia Sinica. Established in 2000, it publishes research in general and theoretical linguistics on the languages of East Asia and the Pacific region, including Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, and the Austroasiatic and Altaic language families (Indo-European and Afro-Asiatic languages are not included). LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS publishes both a journal and a monograph series. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS is a pure linguistics journal. We only publish articles on (descriptive and theoretical) linguistic studies but not articles on applied linguistics such as language teaching or language learning.
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