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Under an unselectively binding analysis, it has been argued that island (in)sensitivity of wh-in situ falls under the so-called Noun versus Adverb Generalization (NAG), which states that an in-situ wh-phrase is island-free iff it is (or contains) a wh-nominal (Tsai, 1994ab 1999, 2008; Stepanov & Tsai, 2008; Fujii et al., 2014). In this study, however, we show that the NAG is not sufficient to capture the island behaviors of some (non-)standard in-situ wh-phrases in Korean. Borrowing insights from Murphy (2017), we instead suggest that the island-(in)sensitivity of in-situ wh-phrases in Korean may correlate not with their semantic or categorial status, but with their base-generated positions in syntax. Specifically, we suggest that an in-situ wh-phrase that is base-generated in the CP domain is island-sensitive, while an in-situ wh-phrase that is base-generated below CP or TP is island-insensitive.
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1. The puzzle
2. Review of Previous Analyses
2.1 Huang (1982ab): LF-movement and Empty Category Principle
2.2 Reinhart (1998) and Tsai (1994ab, 1999, 2008): Semantics- or Category-based Unselective Binding
3. Counterexamples to the Previous Analyses
3.1 Rethinking How-questions in Korean
3.2 What as Why-questions in Korean
4. Correlation between Island (In)sensitivity and Base Positions of Wh-in situ
4.1 Syntactic Positions of the Two Variants of Ecci
4.2 Syntactic Position of Nominal Wh-adjunct Mwe-l
4.3 Island (In)sensitivity and Base Positions of Other In-situ Wh-phrases in Korean
5. Conclusion and Future Work
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