Negation, Focus, and do-support in Korean

0. Background...................................................................................................... 1 0.0. Introduction...................................................................................................... 1 0.1. do-support structures are not biclausal ............................................................ 3 I. Korean negation—unification and analysis.................................................. 6 I.1. Some interesting negation data from child Korean ......................................... 7 I.2. Acquisition evidence: negative object shift ..................................................... 9 I.3. The Split-VP Hypothesis, and the placement of NegP. ................................. 11 I.4. Unifying Long-Form Negation and Short-Form Negation ............................ 14 I.5 Multiple negation: a more general do-support. .............................................. 17 I.6. Multiple short-form negation—NegP selection and do-inducing affixes...... 17 I.7. Tense doubling............................................................................................... 21 I.8. Negative Polarity Items ................................................................................. 24 I.8.1. NPI data........................................................................................................ 24 I.8.2. Strong features and checking ....................................................................... 26 I.8.3. Clause-bounded NPIs and Subject NPIs ...................................................... 27 I.8.4. NPI-in-situ—evidence for the analogy ........................................................ 28 I.9. Non-transitive clause structures ..................................................................... 29 II. VP Focus—Dissolution and a solution. ....................................................... 32 II.1. VP Focus and Predicate Cleft constructions are different ............................. 32 II.2. VP Focus—an analysis .................................................................................. 34 II.3. Predicate clefts ............................................................................................... 36 II.4. do-support in light verb constructions ........................................................... 38 III. Concluding remarks ..................................................................................... 40 References .................................................................................................................. 40