Abstract
Hong, Minpyo. 2011. On Free Choice and Subtrigging in Korean. Linguistic Research 28(3), 543-567. A few issues regarding the subtrigging phenomenon are critically reviewed in this paper. Based on a critical review of two major accounts of subtrigging in English any-constructions, namely that of Dayal (1998, 2004) and Aloni (2007), the paper describes data from Korean to see if Korean free choice words also display the subtrigging effects. While doing so, the paper argues for a closer, more careful look at the relevant data, which reveals that those apparently episodic contexts that have been known to allow free choice amwu-na are not episodic in a strict sense. Instead, it is argued that they are habitual, inducing an iterative interpretation of the eventuality denoted by the predicate, in line with the observation made by Quer (2000). The issues of volition or agentivity as well as referentiality as part of the meaning of Korean free choice constructions noted by Kim & Kaufmann (2006) and Choi (2007) are critically reviewed, too, alluding to some evidence against their claim. (Myongji University)
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