Although recent literature has described Korean as a language in which (in)definiteness is expressed, the semantico-pragmatic nature of these presumed definite and indefinite descriptions has not been correctly characterized. In order to shed light on the issue of (in)definiteness, I especially focus...
Although recent literature has described Korean as a language in which (in)definiteness is expressed, the semantico-pragmatic nature of these presumed definite and indefinite descriptions has not been correctly characterized. In order to shed light on the issue of (in)definiteness, I especially focus...
Under such an account, anticausative verbs are weak scalar expressions that stand in a semantico-pragmatic opposition to their strong lexical causative counterparts. Due to this scalar relation, the use of an anticausative can trigger the implicature that the use of its lexical causative counterpart...