Anaphoric definiteness marking in Korean: focusing on subject definites

• Published in: Journal of East Asian linguistics Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 373 - 409
• Main Author: Kim, Min-Joo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.09.2023
• Subjects: Chinese; Comparative Linguistics; Japanese; Language and Literature; Linguistics; Social Sciences; Theoretical Linguistics; Anaphoric definiteness; Index; Demonstrative; Bare noun; Locative

This article takes a close look at subject anaphoric definites in Korean, with the goal of identifying (i) the distribution of anaphoric bare nouns and demonstrative-NPs and (ii) their form-meaning correlation. I show that the choice between an anaphoric bare noun and a demonstrative-NP is not as fr...