caa a22 4500 463173783 CHVBK 20180406164820.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11050-007-9021-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11050-007-9021-z An Duk-Ho Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto, Robarts Library, Room 6075, 130 St. George St., M5S 3MH1, Toronto, ON, Canada aut On the distribution of NPIs in Korean [Elektronische Daten] [Duk-Ho An] In this paper, I offer a novel solution to the well-known problem concerning two polarity items in Korean, amu-(N)-to and amu-(N)-rato, that show a complementary distribution within the set of typical NPI-licensing contexts. I present a uniform analysis of the distribution of these NPIs, where the complementary distribution follows from the opposite scope properties of the emphatic particles to and rato contained in the NPIs in question. As the- oretical background, I adopt Karttunen and Peters's (1979, Syntax and Semantics 11: Presuppositions (pp. 1-56). New York: Academic Press) and Wilkinson's (1996, Natural Language Semantics, 4, 193-215) scope analysis of even, Lahiri's (1998, Natural Language Semantics, 6, 57-127) analysis of Hindi NPIs, and Guerzoni's (2002, Proceedings of NELS 32 (pp. 153-170); GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass.; 2004, Natural Language Semantics, 12, 319-343) analysis of the negative bias of yes/no-questions containing minimizers. The current analysis also lends further support to Guerzoni's approach in that it bears out the prediction that in certain environments, a yes/no-question can be positively biased, i.e., only the positive answer is allowed as a legitimate answer in the context; this prediction was left unconfirmed in Guerzoni's work. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2007 Negative polarity item nationallicence Korean nationallicence Complementary distribution nationallicence Scope of even nationallicence Rhetorical questions nationallicence Natural Language Semantics Springer Netherlands 15/4(2007-12-01), 317-350 0925-854X 15:4<317 2007 15 11050 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-007-9021-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-007-9021-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- An Duk-Ho Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto, Robarts Library, Room 6075, 130 St. George St., M5S 3MH1, Toronto, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Natural Language Semantics Springer Netherlands 15/4(2007-12-01), 317-350 0925-854X 15:4<317 2007 15 11050 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer