On non-conservativity of Korean floating quantifiers

Since the Conservativity Universal (Barwise & Cooper 1981; Keenan Stavi 1986) has been proposed for natural language determiners, several apparent counterexamples have presented in literature. Some of these, such as English only Only students presented, argued to involve an adverbial structure, thus not violating Conservativity. In this paper, we focus on proportional quantifiers 70% Korean, which shown a non- conservative reading when floated out DP (Ahn Sauerland 2017). While Ahn (2017) assume that are adnominal, Korean both adnominal and variants (Ko 2014), leaving open possibility non-conservative is simply resulting from like only. We test predictions accounts Korean. Our results show floating contexts a) cannot be definite-marked, b) intervened by vP-internal (low) adverbial, predicted if quantifier but it adverbial. Based these findings, conclude quantifiers. study makes novel case claim syntactic movement can implicated order explain construal languages under Universal.