More than Intervention Effects: Pragmatic Accounts of an Embedded why

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· 발행기관 : 국립부경대학교 인문사회과학연구소
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Intervention effects have received much attention in previous studies. Intervention effects are triggered when an intervener (e.g., anyone, someone, only, also) precedes a wh-phrase in wh-questions. It has been known that this intervention effect disappears in why questions in Korean and Japanese. The existing analyses of this phenomenon have not paid much attention to the re-emergence of intervention effects when why is in an embedded clause, involving its matrix scope. This paper examines its distribution of scope interpretations depending on the position of why. Why can take the matrix scope only when it precedes the remnant elements in an embedded clause. The unacceptability of the matrix scope can be restrained by the principle of so-called Scope-Prosody Correspondence (SPC). This paper proposes that the matrix scope is acceptable only when the non-why-portion is placed within the post-focus domain (Tomioka, 2009). It is driven by the fact that the presuppositional proposition of why is peculiar in that the remnant elements correspond to the presuppositional proposition, independently from why. This strong presupposed proposition contributes to weak intervention effects of why. Secondly, the acceptability of an embedded scope varies across types of an intervener. The negative polarity item (NPI; e.g., anyone) disallows why to take an embedded scope. This paper proposes that it is due to a contradiction between a question and why that has a focus semantic value. When the question is negated in the presence of an NPI, it cannot satisfy why to be focused. In other words, the negated question leads to seeking the set of alternative propositions, instead of the focused why embedded clause, resulting in a contradiction.

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