The Unembeddable Allocutive Marker –Yo in Korean and the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface

초록

In this article, drawing on the fact that the allocutive marker -yo appears in the matrix clauses, but not in the embedded contexts, I argue that the unembeddability of -yo constitutes empirical evidence for the view that Speech Act structure is only posited in the left clausal periphery in which discourse pragmatic features are anchored. Under this view, -yo is an exponent of the Speech Act head that is only posited in the matrix clause.

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