'여간'과 그 아류 표현의 분포와 의미에 대하여

초록

This paper is concerned with the distribution and interpretation of the Korean adverbial yekan ‘being ordinary’ and its variants. It will be argued that yekan is an NPI that must be licensed by the antimorphic expression anita or anhta. From the theoretical viewpoint, the meaning of yekan indicates that the scalar approach to NPIs is problematic and its distribution in relation with other NPIs suggests that some NPIs must take scope over their licensors, but others must take scope under their licensors. It will be argued also that the relation between yekan and its licensor is basically local, but that the locality condition is hard to define.