Resumen de An Experimental Study of Neg-Raising Inferences in Korean
The present study is an attempt to provide an account of Neg-Raisingin Korean from the perspective of experimental pragmatics. The primary focus of the study is upon the class of Neg-Raising predicates and the presence of an auxiliary, context-dependent presupposition in understanding Neg-Raising inferences in Korean. To this end, a set of experiments were designed and conductedto examine how native speakers of Korean perceive a class of Neg-Raising predicates as opposed to their synonymous, but non-Neg-Raising counterparts and to investigate the so-called short-circuitedness of Neg-Raising interpretations. The results of the experiments are discussed in the framework of neo-Gricean pragmatics. Over recent years, an increasing amount of attention has been paid to NegRaising (Horn 1978, 1989; Levinson 2000; Gajewski 2005, 2007; Collins and Postal 2014; Tieu and Kang 2012). Oddly, however, little attention has yet been paid to language users’ perceptions of Neg-Raising predicates and the way that the Neg-Raising constructions are interpreted. This paper attempts to show how experimental pragmatics that draws on pragmatics and the psychology of reasoning in the sense of Noveck and Sperber (2004) can shed light on the study of NegRaising in Korean.
