An experimental syntactic study of binding: A case study of Korean long-distance anaphor caki

Ji Hye Kim, Hye Suk James Yoon

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Abstract

This study investigates the binding behavior of the Korean anaphor 'caki', which has been regarded thus far as a long-distance anaphor (LDA). However, given that even local anaphors can be bound long-distance when they function as exempt anaphors in certain languages (Pollard and Sag 1992; Kim and Yoon 2009), we investigated the binding behavior of LD-bound 'caki', in order to determine whether LD-bound 'caki' differs from LD-bound 'caki-casin'. In the experiment, subjects were required to rate the acceptability of Korean sentences representing various types of LD binding of 'caki' and to determine whether the sloppy or the strict reading was more prominent in elliptical VPs containing the anaphor. The results are discussed with respect to the typology of LDAs proposed by Cole, Hermon and Huang (2001).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationPACLIC 23 - Proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Pages250-259
Number of pages10
StatePublished - 2009
Event23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 23 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: Dec 3 2009Dec 5 2009

Publication series

NamePACLIC 23 - Proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Volume1

Other

Other23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 23
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period12/3/0912/5/09

Keywords

  • Anaphor binding
  • Binding of 'caki'
  • Exempt binding
  • Korean binding
  • Logophoricity
  • Long-distance (LD) binding
  • Strict vs. sloppy reading
  • VP ellipsis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Computer Science (miscellaneous)

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