영어와 한국어의 상호사에 대한 비교 연구: 분포와 해석을 중심으로

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

For the purpose of the comparative descriptive study, I will first discuss the distributional peculiarities and meanings of the reciprocal, each other, and the truth- conditions of reciprocal statements in English proposed in the literature. Given this preliminary discussion, I will then identify various uses of the Korean reciprocal, selo, explicating each of them with a corpus-based description. This explication includes discussion of some interesting facts regarding the uses of selo and its distribution on each use. The differences in meaning between the uses of selo will be explicitly stated in truth-conditional terms. This descriptive work will constitute the first half of the project and thus serve as a foundation of the formal account of reciprocal statements and related phenomena in English and Korean. The major topics that will be covered by the descriptive work are: the locality condition, the asymmetric relation between the reciprocal and its antecedent, and the truth-conditional characterizations of various uses of the reciprocal.
For the purpose of formal study, I will first focus on locality and asymmetry. Given the comparison of reciprocal constructions in English and Korean regarding locality, I will first argue that the English reciprocal each other and its Korean counterpart both observe the same locality condition, except that the locality condition for the latter on the respective reading requires a new definition of binding domain, since whatever binding domain is to be defined for it must exclude it from being bound by a coargument. I will then argue that contra the prediction made by Binding-Theoretic accounts, the asymmetric relation between the reciprocal and its antecedent is best explained by the Principle of Referential Autonomy which paradigmatically constrains the occurrences of referential NPs in sentences. Turning to a formal semantic treatment, I will characterize the truth-conditional contents, including the one not yet observed in the literature, of the various uses of the reciprocal construction in Korean. Focusing on the reciprocity, I will then show that the Korean data support Dalrymple, Kanazawa, Kim, Mchombo, and Peters's (1997) Strongest Meaning Hypothesis, which says that a reciprocal statement expresses the strongest candidate meaning that is consistent with known properties of the relation expressed by the scope and antecedent of the reciprocal as well as with relevant nonlinguistic information.