Abstract:This paper investigates the Korean 'what/how about' construction. In Korean, unlike English, the wh-question word 'what/how' is typically phonologically suppressed and the particle '-(N)UN' is used, corresponding to the English preposition 'about'. Departing from Chung's (2021) recent work on this construction, this paper makes three claims. First, three distinct uses of this construction indicate that '-(N)UN' can be not only a contrastive topic marker but also a (contrastive) focus marker. Second, the underl… Show more
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