About Korean Grammatical Constructions
This inaugural volume in the Saffron Korean Linguistics Series is published in conjunction with the Centre of Korean Studies, University of 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. In that sense this book 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.
Table of Contents [Abridged, see below]
- Introduction
- Grammatical roles and relations
- Double-Nominative and Dative-Subject Constructions
- Causatives
- Passives
- Causative-Passive Correlations
- Transitivity Alternation and Neutral-Verbs in Korean
- Possessor-Ascension Constructions
- Locative Alternation
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Language Index
- General Index
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