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(Not) Shifting Together: An Experimental Investigation of Korean Anaphors and Subjective Predicates
Sarah Hye-yeon Lee and Elsi Kaiser
196-205 (complete paper or proceedings contents)

Abstract

This paper reports a psycholinguistic study on Korean that investigates the interpretation of two types of perspective-sensitive items: perspective-sensitive anaphors and subjective predicates. The first aim of the paper is to experimentally investigate the perspective-sensitivity of Korean anaphors (reflexives and pronouns) in picture-NP contexts. Three anaphorical forms are tested: the simplex reflexive caki, the complex reflexive caki-casin, and the pronoun ku/kunye. The second aim is to explore the relationship between subjective predicates and perspective-sensitive anaphors, to see whether they are interpreted relative to the same perspectival center (i.e., whether they 'shift together'.) The results suggest that both types of Korean reflexives (caki and caki-casin) are perspective-sensitive in that they exhibit a preference to be interpreted as referring to the source of information. The Korean pronoun ku/kunye 'he/she', however, do not exhibit perspective-sensitivity. The results also indicate that there is no clear evidence for the perspectival center of anaphors and subjective predicates showing Shift-Together behavior. This work suggests that it may be worthwhile to consider finer-grained subtypes of perspective-sensitivity, such as evaluative perspective-sensitivity and anaphoric perspective-sensitivity.

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Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Robert Autry, Gabriela de la Cruz, Luis A. Irizarry Figueroa, Kristina Mihajlovic, Tianyi Ni, Ryan Smith, and Heidi Harley
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