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Kim, Jieun. 2013. Quantification in Korean Exceptive Constructions: Focusing on 'Oyey' and '-Pakkey'. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 38-3, 569-584. Korean has two types of lexical items that compose exceptive constructions. One is called -pakkey, which consists of a sino-Korean word 'pakk' meaning 'outside', and the other one consists of pakk’s corresponding Chinese character called oi and particle -ey. I will call each construction -pakkey exceptive construction and oiey exceptive construction respectively. These two exhibit interesting differences. In this squib, I will propose semantics for each exceptive constructions as quantifying their related NPs and will show how this quantification process explicates the way the NPs are related to the predicates. Their primary semantic differences are proposed to appear in two aspects. First, while oiey introduces an existential quantifier in its propositional meaning, -pakkey introduces a universal quantifier. Secondly, -oiey produces only a single proposition and -pakkey derives two propositions. We will study how these semantic differences explain the observed surface differences between the two exceptive constructions. (University of Ulsan)