Honorific Agreement and Plural Copying as Korean Subjecthood Diagnostics:

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Ji Hye Kim Yong hun Lee Eun ah Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제93호, 119~144쪽, 전체 26쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2017.03.01

영문 초록

The study investigates the validity of ‘subjecthood diagnostics’ in Korean proposed in the previous studies. Based on the studies on subjecthood diagnostics in Korean Single Subject Constructions (non-MSCs) and Multiple Subject Constructions (MSCs), the role of two subjecthood diagnostics―Honorific Agreement (HA) and Plural Copying (PC)―in these two constructions are examined through an empirical syntactic experiment. Seventy Korean native speakers participated in the experiment using acceptability judgment task designed to probe their intuition. The results show (i) that in the Non-MSCs, Honorific Agreement (HA) reliably seems to choose the subject (i.e., the only Nom-marked NP), whereas Plural Copying (PC) does not seem to pick out the subject in a less consistent manner; and (ii) that in the MSCs, neither Honorific Agreement (HA) nor Plural Copying (PC) seems to be a reliable subjecthood diagnostic. Possible reasons for these results are discussed.

목차

1. Introduction: Subjecthood Diagnostics in Korean

2. Previous Studies

3. Present Study

4. Conclusion

References

키워드

Multiple Subject Constructions acceptability judgment honorifc agreement subjecthood diagnostics plural copying