Abstract
This paper addresses the effects of focus-marking (i.e. nun-marking) on the scope of quantified expressions in Korean negation constructions and shows how these inform the analysis of Korean negation constructions generally. Specifically, highlighting the “Rigid Scope” properties of Korean (in contrast with English), focus-marking in Korean negation constructions eliminates quantifier/negative scope ambiguities. In all cases but one, a focus-marked element has scope over all others. The anomalous case involving contrastive focus of object universal quantifiers brings the semantics of quantifiers into opposition with the semantics of contrastive focus.
Highlights
This paper addresses the effects of focus-marking on the scope of quantified expressions in Korean negation constructions and shows how these inform the analysis of Korean negation constructions generally
Korean example (2) has a rigid scope interpretation
It will be shown that Korean quantifiers are more likely to have ambiguous scope relative to negation, and that this ambiguity is independent of whether the quantified expression is a subject or an object
Summary
This paper addresses the effects of focus-marking (i.e. nun-marking) on the scope of quantified expressions in Korean negation constructions and shows how these inform the analysis of Korean negation constructions generally. Korean example (2) has the same two quantified expressions, and there is no ambiguity (5) motun haksayng-i ku mwuncey-lul phwul-ci an-ha-ss-ta every student-NOM the question-ACC answer-NMLZ NEG-do-PST-DECL Focus-marked nominalized verbs (e.g. phwul-ci-nun) must undergo head-raising only, disambiguating the two possible scope interpretations.
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