Противопоставительная конструкция в корейском языке: синтаксический анализ
Contrastive negation in the Korean language (syntactic analysis)

Summary/Abstract: In the article the Korean construction with contrastive negation for correction (or corrective negation) is considered. The semantic and syntactic analysis of correction with focalization and contrastive negation is presented; it is discussed how corrective negation functions in the languages with and without term negation. A more detailed analysis of the Korean corrective negation construction “A-ka ani-la” leads to the conclusion that “A-ka ani-la” (‘not A’) forms a deficient, or a parenthetical, clause. This parenthetical clause is grammaticalized; its syntactic features are to some degree similar to the predicative / focus group of the so-called “pseudocleft construction” that is rather widespread in Korean.

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