Korean Post positional Particle wa ( kwa ) in Categorial Grammar = Korean Post positional Particle wa ( kwa ) in Categorial Grammar

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Kim, Soo-Kil (1995). Korean Postpositional Particle wa(kwa) in Categorial Grammar Linguistics vol. 3. In describing the uses of the partcle wa, I adopt Partee & Rooth`s idea (1983) that a category may correspond to multiple types, and the type can be lifted without a category lifting in appropriate situations. The advantage of the multiple types for a single category and the type-lifting without the category lifting over the treatment of every syntactic category as a single type is that the syntax is not affected by the type incoherence with the help of type lifting. In the case of the particle of conjoining wa, it is given a single category, but it is given multiple types. It is shown that if the type-lifting is allowed in the syntactic derivations of sentences, the syntactic category of wa is maintained as a single syntactic category, not influenced by the category lifting. The postpositional particle wa which forms an adjunct with a noun phrase also undergoes the type lifting to maintain the uniform syntactic treatment of the phrases of the adjuncts. Each of the syntactic and semantic characteristics of the sentences of symmetric particle wa is represented by a syntactic feature and a meaning postulate.