Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.17250/KHISLI.38.2.202106.007
Narah Lee
Contrast has been regarded as one of the major functions for the understanding of the overt subject in pro-drop languages like Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish, in which null subject is more frequent than overt subject in discourse. The literature in Korean linguistics commonly addresses contrast as a significant aspect of an expressed subject, but the research can be further developed with empirical data analysis and re-definition of the notion of contrast. The present study, analysing TV drama scripts, claims how contrast may be differently identified in relation to the recognition of contrastive candidates in discourse. I find that contrast in the data is in various types and that overt subject NPs are used in marking contrast either in a single utterance or over several utterances as the discourse develops. By providing an extended analysis of overt subject NPs as a contrast marker, this study seeks to broaden the understanding of subject expression in Korean discourse.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.17250/KHISLI.37.1.202003.003
Hui-Mei Yang, Mira Oh
This paper investigates how the coronal voiceless fricatives /s/ and /∫/ in English are adapted in Mandarin Chinese. The few-to-many mappings between /s/ and /∫/ in English and /s, s, ɕ/ in Mandarin Chinese will be studied based on the corpus of 493 English loanwords taken from Oxford Advanced Learner’s English - Chinese Dictionary (7th edition, 2009), Xiandai Hanyu Cidian (Modern Chinese Dictionary 6th edition, 2009) and Google searches (2013). The results of a corpus study demonstrate three key findings. First, the alveolar fricative in English is mapped to the corresponding loan sound in Mandarin Chinese, depending on the following vowel to conform to native phonotactics. Second, the adaptation of the palato-alveolar fricative is mainly determined by its internal acoustic cues. Third, it is noted that the stress of the s-initial syllable exerts influence on how /s/ in a cluster (/s/ followed by another consonant) is mapped to a loan sound in Mandarin Chinese. These findings suggest that loan adaptation makes a crucial reference to featural co-occurrence constraints, in that a consonant of interest can be mapped to different loan sounds due to native phonotactics. Notably, they also indicate that suprasegmental information comes into play when vocalic information is not available next to a consonant of interest. The roles of external and suprasegmental cues in the adaptation of coronal fricatives of English into Mandarin Chinese argue for the perceptual view (Silverman 1992) as opposed to the phonological view (Lacharite and Paradis 2005) on loanword adaptation. (Qingdao University of Science and Technology · Chonnam National University)
本文研究了英语冠状元音/s/和/∫/在汉语普通话中的改编。本文将基于《牛津高级英汉词典》(2009年第7版)、《现代汉语词典》(2009年第6版)和谷歌搜索(2013年)的493个英语外来词语料库,研究英语中的/s/和/∫/与普通话中的/s, s, k /之间的少对多映射。语料库研究的结果显示了三个关键发现。首先,英语中的肺泡擦音被映射到汉语普通话中相应的借音,根据下面的元音来符合母语语音策略。其次,腭-肺泡擦音的适应主要由其内部的声学信号决定。第三,需要注意的是,s开头音节的重音对集群中的/s/ (/s/后面跟着另一个辅音)如何映射到普通话中的借音有影响。这些研究结果表明,借音适应对特征共现限制起着至关重要的参考作用,因为感兴趣的辅音可以由于本地语音策略而映射到不同的借音。值得注意的是,它们还表明,当感兴趣的辅音旁边没有语音信息时,超分段信息就会发挥作用。外部线索和超片段线索在英语冠状擦音向汉语普通话的适应过程中所起的作用支持知觉观点(Silverman 1992),而不是音系观点(Lacharite and Paradis 2005)。(青岛科技大学·全南大学)
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Pub Date : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.17250/KHISLI.37.1.202003.004
Hae In Park
Languages vary considerably in how they encode motion. Research (Slobin 2004; Talmy 1985, 2000) has shown that inter-typological differences are found...
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.17250/KHISLI.37.3.202012.003
Manabu Mizuguchi
Mizuguchi, Manabu. 2020. A-movement: Its successive cyclicity revisited. Linguistic Research 37(3): 439-475. This paper reconsiders the successive cyclicity of A-movement, which has been controversial in the literature. I argue that contrary to what has been argued, A-movement can be both successive cyclic and non-successive cyclic, showing that this proposal follows as one consequence of simplest Merge, which applies freely. I claim that whether A-movement proceeds successive cyclically or not depends on how Merge applies to C and T (as well as to v and R) in the derivation. I show that the discussion in the paper is cross-linguistically endorsed. It is also shown that the proposal has favorable implications for clausal construction, the labelability of T and wager-class sentences. The present paper is one illustration of Merge playing a key role in syntactic derivation, supporting the hypothesis that the operation is the core of the Faculty of Language. (Toyo University)
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.17250/KHISLI.37.3.202012.006
Kang, Arum, Suwon Yoon
Kang, Arum and Suwon Yoon. 2020. From anti-specificity to anti-honorification: Conventional implicature of disjunction inka in Korean. Linguistic Research 37(3): 531-580. The goal of this paper is to investigate the pragmatic meaning of the disjunction-driven anti-specificity marker inka associated with rigid designators such as proper nouns (e.g., John-inka) in Korean. Its attachability to a specific referent is unexpected in the previous accounts of inka (Choi 2011; Kang 2015, 2017, a.o.), assuming the felicity condition that the domain of referentially vague items like ‘wh-phrase’-inka should not be a singleton set with a fixed value. With a proper name, however, the referential vagueness presupposition cannot be satisfied. We argue that this particular use of inka is pragmatically accommodated by the anti-honorific connotational nuance, which is independent of the at-issue content. In particular, we propose that the derogatory sense triggered by inka is Conventional Implicature (à la Potts 2005), expressing a speaker’s negative attitude toward the target. We furthermore examine its co-occurrence patterns with other typical expressives and show how the dynamic paradigm of multiple expressives (the anti-honorific inka and others) can be predicted by the compatibility condition (Yoon 2015). Regarding the relationship between the two types, anti-specific vs. anti-honorific inka, we show that whereas the anti-specific inka contributes the semantic content of referential vagueness, the anti-honorific inka has only the pragmatic contribution of mitigation as a reflex of grammaticalization of the attitude holder’s subjective perspective. Theoretical implications of the current study thus include: (i) the conceptual connection from anti-specificity to anti-honorification is established; (ii) the identification of another case of expressive element in language lends further support to the notion of multidimensionality in meaning; and (iii) the close examination of compatibility condition reveals the systematicity of expressives as part of our grammar. (Hankyong National University · University of Texas, Arlington)
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.17250/KHISLI.37..202009.001
Jayoung Song
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.17250/KHISLI.37.3.202012.005
Jeong-Seok Kim, Yun-young Kim, DUK-HO Jung
Kim, Jeong-Seok, Yunhui Kim, and Duk-Ho Jung. 2020. Case-mismatches in Korean left-node-raising: An experimental study. Linguistic Research 37(3): 499-529. The goal of this article is to investigate Case-mismatches in Korean Left-Node-Raising (LNR) via the utility of experimental syntax techniques. To achieve this goal, we use the 2 × 2 factorial design of two Case-mismatch types (accusative vs. dative Case) of Korean LNR with respect to the locus of Case-licensing/mismatches (the first vs. second conjunct). The result of the experiment suggests that the first conjunct Case-licensing of the fronted NP in LNR is crucial across Case types, indicating that symmetric approaches (cf. Nakao’s (2009, 2010) across-the-board (ATB) Scrambling and Chung’s (2010) Multidominance) to LNR is not the right avenue to pursue. It also suggests that there is a distinction between structural Case-licensing and inherent Case-licensing in LNR (cf. Chomsky 1986, 1995; Bošković 2008). We review three syntactic analyses of Case-mismatch effects in LNR (ATB Scrambling, Multidominance, and Scrambling + pro) and defend the Scrambling + pro analysis. (Korea University · UW-Milwaukee · UC San Diego)
Kim, Jeong-Seok, Kim Yunhui, Jung - ho, 2020。韩国语左节点抬高的案例不匹配:一项实验研究。语言研究37(3):499-529。本文的目的是通过使用实验语法技术来研究朝鲜语左节点提升(LNR)中的大小写不匹配。为了实现这一目标,我们对韩国LNR的两种Case-mismatch类型(宾格与格格)的案例许可/不匹配位点(第一个与第二个连词)使用了2 × 2析因设计。实验结果表明,LNR中前端NP的第一个联合Case许可在所有Case类型中都是至关重要的,这表明LNR的对称方法(参见Nakao(2009, 2010)的全面(ATB)置乱和Chung(2010)的多支配)不是正确的途径。它还表明,在LNR中存在结构性案例许可和内在案例许可的区别(cf. Chomsky 1986, 1995;2008年博šković)。我们回顾了三种句法分析(ATB加扰、Multidominance和加扰+ pro),并对加扰+ pro分析进行了论证。(高丽大学·威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校·加州大学圣地亚哥分校)
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.17250/KHISLI.37..202009.007
C. Ji
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.17250/KHISLI.37.3.202012.009
Zeki Hamawand
This paper provides new insights into sentence types in English, based on Cognitive Grammar. The paper applies three of its theories of meaning to sentence types. One theory is that a linguistic expression is polysemous, having more than one function. On this basis, the paper argues that a sentence type has a wide range of functions that gather around a central function. Another theory is that the meaning of a linguistic expression is best understood in terms of the domain to which it belongs. On this basis, the paper argues that sentence types form sets in which they highlight not only similarity but also difference. A further theory is that the use of a linguistic expression is governed by the particular construal imposed by the speaker on its content. On this basis, the paper argues that the use of a sentence type results from the particular construal the speaker chooses to describe a situation. The aim of the paper is to present a new conception of sentence types, using the tools of Cognitive Grammar. A sentence type has been found to be polysemous in nature, associated with pragmatic functions, and the result of construal imposed on its content. (Kirkuk University)
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