분열문의 의미와 초점 후치사의 수의성
This study proposes that there are two distinct semantic types of Korean kes-cleft sentences, one an equative clause and the other a predicational clause in the sense of Higgins (1979). It is claimed that this distinction is based on the presence/absence of postpositions in the pivot phrase of a kes-cleft. The semantic and syntactic derivational process for each type is provided, which can capture the difference of these two semantic types and the two widely known semantic interpretations of cleft constructions, i.e., existential presupposition and exhaustivity interpretation.