This paper focuses on a new type of negative polarity items (NPIs) in Korean and discusses its implications on grammar. This new type of NPIs, which I will call slang NPIs, are different from the well-known NPIs in Korean such as amuto or nwukwuto in that they can be licensed in more diverse environments and don"t have to obey the strong locality constraint. I claim that this non-local nature of slang NPIs follows if we assume that operator movement rather than movement of a slang NPI itself is involved in its licensing. It will be suggested that this analysis of slang NPls provides a way to distinguish NPI types such that local NPIs involve movement of NPI itself while non-local NPIs involve movement of an operator.
1. Introduction<BR>2. Local NPIs in Korean<BR>3. Another type of NPIs-slang NPIs<BR>4. An operator movement analysis for slang NPIs<BR>5. Implications<BR>References<BR>
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