Abstract
This paper aims to examine that a structure of ‘V1-a V2’ is separated by focus particles. The categories of verb linking constructions which combine focus particles are the same in terms of the morphological identity, but not the syntactic-semantical identity. In addition, it violates the Lexical Island Constraint and causes a contradiction between form and meaning when focus particles are combined with compound verbs. It seems to be induced by the specificity of each category of the ‘V1-a V2’ and the application of variable semantic domains of focus particles. Therefore, this paper argues the phenomenon mentioned above based on Copy Theory. As a result, the higher copy of the focus particles is not realized in the PF layer due to phonological restrictions while the copies of the focus particles are realized differently depending on the discourse semantic situation in the LF layer.
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