The blocking effect and Korean caki

31st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 31), pages 178–186 Cebu City, Philippines, November 16-18, 2017 Copyright c⃝2017 Hyunjun Park and Haihua Pan The blocking effect and Korean caki Hyunjun Park Department of Chinese Language and Literature Chungbuk National University Chengju, South Korea 28644 tudorgepark@gmail.com Haihua Pan Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong panhaihua@cuhk.edu.hk Abstract When the Chinese reflexive ziji is located far from its antecedents, it is not uncommon to see the blocking effect, since the long-distance binding of ziji is normally blocked by the presence of a first (or second) person pronoun intervening in the reported speech. Conversely, it has generally been accepted that Korean caki does not manifest any blocking effects. However, in this paper, we propose that the blocking effect exists in the long-distance binding of Korean caki. 1 Introduction When the Chinese reflexive ziji is located far from its antecedents, it is not uncommon to see the blocking effect, since the long-distance binding of ziji is normally blocked by the presence of a first (or second) person pronoun intervening in the re- ported speech (Y.-H. Huang 1984, Cole et al. 1990, Huang and Tang 1991, Huang and Liu 2001, Pan 2001, Cole et al. 2006, among others), as shown in (1) and (2). (1) Zhangsani renwei Lisij zhidao Wangwuk Zhangsan think Lisi know Wangwu xihuan zijii/j/k. like self ‘Zhangsani thinks Lisij knows Wangwuk likes selfi/j/k.’ (Cole et al. 1990:1) (2) Zhangsani renwei woj zhidao Wangwuk Zhangsan think I know Wangwu xihuan ziji*i/*j/k. like self ‘Zhangsani thinks that Ij know that Wangwuk likes him*i/me*j/himselfk.’ (Cole et al. 1990:15) The antecedent of Chinese ziji in (1) can be the matrix subject Zhangsan, the intermediate subject Lisi, or the most embedded subject Wangwu. In contrast, ziji in (2) can only be coreferential with the local antecedent Wangwu rather than the matrix subject Zhangsan or the intermediate subject wo of a first person pronoun. This phenomenon of Chi- nese ziji has long been accounted for in terms of the blocking effect, which occurs when an imme- diately higher noun phrase differs in the person feature from a lower noun phrase. Therefore, in (2), the intermediate subject wo ‘I’ serves as a blocker because the person feature of wo ‘I’ differs from the third person Wangwu. Conversely, it has generally been accepted that Korean caki does not manifest any blocking effects (Yoon 1989, Cole et al. 1990, Sohng 2004, Cole et al. 2006, Han and Storoshenko 2012, Kim 2013, among others), as exemplified in (3).1 (3) Chelswui-nun nayj-ka cakii/*j-lul Chelswu-Top I-Nom self-Acc cohaha-n-ta-ko sayngkakha-n-ta. like-Prs-Decl-Comp think-Prs-Decl ‘Chelswui thinks Ij like himi/myself*j.’ 1 Cole et al. (1990), contrary to caki, assume that long-distance casin is subject to the blocking effect, as shown in (i). (i) *Chelswui-nun nayj-ka casini-ul saranha-n-ta-ko Chelswu-Top I-Nom self-Acc love-Prs-Decl-Comp sayngkakha-n-ta. think-Prs-Decl ‘*Chelswu thinks I like himself.’ (Cole et al. 1990:18) However, we will not discuss the long-distance binding of casin here. 178 (Cole …

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