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caki as a Bound-variable Pronoun

The article claims that caki in Korean is neither an anaphor nor a referential pronoun, but a bound-variable pronoun. This is supported by the followings: (a) A-binding is unbounded, even available across islands, (b) A-bar binding is available, (c) caki cannot refer to a discourse entity, (d) discourse conditions which are supposed to hold for caki, such as a viewpoint (Kuno 1973) or logophoricity (Sells 1987), are those that are added over and above a C-command condition. (e) only a sloppy reading is available under keuleoha- VP ellipsis, (f) caki obeys Principle C which is defined in terms of a pronoun as in Sportiche 2013, and (g) non referring expressions are available as extra-sentential or non-c-commanding antecedents. Two apparent problems are shown to be resolved: (a) a violation of C-command under specific predicates or constructions and (b) A-binding within a local domain. For the first problem, it is suggested that in underlying representations, caki obeys C-command. For the second problem, it is suggested that the fact that antecedents of caki cannot be a speaker makes caki to be translated not as an x, but as an f(x), which eventually, leads to the satisfaction of Principle B.