Korean Grammatical Constructions: Their Form and Meaning (Saffron Korean Linguistics Series, 1)

Yeon, Jaehoon

ISBN 10: 1872843263 / ISBN 13: 9781872843261

Verlag: Saffron Books, 2005

Beschreibung

231 pages : map ; 21 cm. Summary:This title is primarily devoted to functionally- and typologically-orientated research on the Korean language and linguistics. The series aims to offer an international academic forum for the dissemination of Korean linguistics as well as Korean language studies.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BGLANG175

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Korean Grammatical Constructions: Their Form and Meaning (Saffron Korean Linguistics Series, 1)
• Verlag: Saffron Books
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1872843263
• ISBN-13: 9781872843261
• Einband: Soft cover
• Zustand: New
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Korea

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

The inaugural volume in the "Saffron Korean Linguistics Series", this title is published in connection with the Centre of Korean Studies, London. The series is primarily devoted to functionally- and typologically-orientated research on the Korean language and linguistics. This volume addresses broadly defined issues rather than matters of abstract theoretical polemics. The series aims to offer an international academic forum for the dissemination of Korean linguistics as well as Korean language studies.

Críticas

This is a functional-typological analysis of Korean grammatical constructions in which the grammatical relation, or the case-marking, alternates. The constructions discussed in this book are double-nominative constructions, dative-subject constructions, causative constructions, passive constructions, anticausative (neutral-verb) constructions, possessor ascension constructions, and space-object constructions. The author has tried to analyse those constructions by studying the relationships between coding features, grammatical relations and semantic roles. Although there is a great deal of correspondence between grammatical relations and the morphological marking, the latter sometimes fail to give a clear indication of grammatical relations, or give inconsistent indications. The grammatical relations (GR) can be changed by the operation of GR-changing processes such as causative, passive, anticausative and possessor-ascension, but the semantic roles remain unchanged in some constructions. The author has taken into account semantic (and pragmatic) factors in explaining the morpho-syntactic behaviour of Korean grammatical constructions. It was shown that differences in morphological coding features may indicate differences in semantic implication. --Sajid Rizvi, Editor in Chief, Saffron Books