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Chapter 20 - Wh-Indefinites

from Part IV - Semantics and Pragmatics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2022

By
Jiwon Yun
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 20 investigates the longstanding and controversial topic of the indefinite reading of so-called wh-words in Korean. The chapter reviews arguments regarding their historical development, typological observation, grammatical properties, and processing strategies.

Keywords

questionsindefinitessemanticsprosody
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The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics , pp. 581 - 606
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Edited by Sungdai Cho, Binghamton University, State University of New York, John Whitman, Cornell University, New York
  • Book: The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics
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  • Book: The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics
  • Online publication: 30 September 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108292351.021
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