Verum Beyond Focus: Comparing VP-Preposing in Korean and English
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This study investigates the verum effect in Korean Nominalized Verb Phrase (NVP) preposing and its parallel to English VP-preposing (VPP). NVPs are Korean verb phrases nominalized with suffixes such as -ki or -(u)m, which retain verbal properties internally but function syntactically as noun phrases. While English VPP has been widely studied, its Korean counterpart remains underexplored. I argue that only the hata type construction in Korean shows genuine VP displacement. In this construction, the main verb hata (‘do’) acts as a lexical verum operator, emphasizing the speaker’s epistemic commitment to the truth of a proposition. This discourse function parallels English VPP. In line with Gutzmann et al.’s (2020) Lexical Operator Thesis (LOT), the analysis draws a clear distinction between verum and focus, demonstrating that they are independent phenomena. By comparing Korean and English data, the paper refines our understanding of verum–focus interaction and contributes to broader discussions on the syntax–discourse interface.
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are Korean verb phrases nominalized with suffixes such as -ki or -(u)m, which retain verbal properties internally but function syntactically as noun phrases. While English VPP has been widely studied, its Korean counterpart remains underexplored. I argue that only the hata type construction in Korean shows genuine VP displacement. In this construction, the main verb hata (‘do’) acts as a lexical verum operator, emphasizing the speaker’s epistemic commitment to the truth of a proposition. This discourse function parallels English VPP. In line with Gutzmann et al.’s (2020) Lexical Operator Thesis (LOT), the analysis draws a clear distinction between verum and focus, demonstrating that they are independent phenomena. By comparing Korean and English data, the paper refines our understanding of verum–focus interaction and contributes to broader discussions on the syntax–discourse interface.