A Study on Transitivity in Korean

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Kyungyul Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제70호, 73~105쪽, 전체 33쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.12.01

영문 초록

Transitivity, or the linguistic realization of transitive events, is a basic linguistic phenomenon across languages. This study examines how far and in what ways the linguistic realization of transitivity in Korean can be varied with respect to typological variations. Thus, this study aims at demonstrating that the expression of transitivity in Korean is closely related to diverse linguistic phenomena such as morphosyntactic constraints on transitivity and semantic extensions in grammaticalization. As for the language-specific factors that characterize transitivity in Korean, it is proposed that as a SOV-language and a topic-prominent language, Korean shows a tendency that morphological devices and limited semantic exten- sions play a significant role in the degree of transitivity

목차

1. Introduction

2. Morphosyntax in Korean

3. Case-marking Variation and Transitivity in Korean

4. Intransitive-transitive Alternation in Korean

5. Conclusion

키워드

case-marking suffix language-specific factors morpho- syntax semantic extension transitivity typological variation