국어의 부정의문문과 전제 = Presuppositions of Yes-No Questions in Korean

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper argues that pragmatics of yes-no questions in Korean parallels that of English in that Korean also has unpresuppositional usages, primary presuppostional usages, and secondary presuppositional usages, which are categorized on the basis of the speaker's presuppositions. (cf. Cattell(1973), Jespersen(1933), Hudson(1975)). Unlike the other ones, the secondary presuppositional usage is a marked case in that it requires hearer's confirmation about the speaker's positive presupposition through a negative yes-no question.
Besides, Korean has an arbitrary secondary presuppositional usage, in which the question realizes its tense before '-chi' instead of after 'ha-'. Because of this unambiguous interpretation, Kim T.S (1981) names the sentence a 'confirmative sentence' and Chang S.C. (1984) analyzes it as a typical tag question.
Unlike their approaches, we argue that the marked type is a special form of general secondary presuppositional usages, which seems to exist in Korean only.