Noun classes and subject honorification In Korean

• 발행기관: 경희대학교 언어정보연구소
• 저자명: Yong-Ha Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『언어연구』제29권 제3호, 563~578쪽, 전체 16쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.12.31

영문 초록

This paper deals with the problem of noun classification and subject honorification in Korean. In particular, it tries to provide a support for the syntactic approaches to subject honorification based on Park’s (1975) seminal work on the nature of honorific nominals. By giving some convincing evidence that shows Ф-features, especially gender features, are crucial factors determining the class of a given noun, this paper opens a way to accommodate subject honorification in the framework of generative grammar.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Noun classes and genders in Korean

3. Subject honorification as gender feature agreement

4. Conclusions

References

키워드

dative alternation noun classes subject honorification gender animacy humanness honorificity agreement