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Chapter 22 - Case Stacking in Korean: Argument Structure or Information Structure?

from Part IV - Semantics and Pragmatics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2022

By
EunHee Lee
Edited by
Sungdai Cho  and
John Whitman
Sungdai Cho
Affiliation:
Binghamton University, State University of New York
John Whitman
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

Chapter 22 focuses on a unique phenomenon in the Korean case system – case alternations and stacking – as a case study to illustrate two opposing views of case in Korean: the structural case view vs. information structure analyses. A more fine-grained information structure-based account of case stacking is proposed, arguing that the phenomenon implicates focus embedded in the topic phrase.

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“case alternationcase stackingstructural casepsych and existential predicatesinformation structure”
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The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics , pp. 635 - 656
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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