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The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese
  • Nathan W. Hill
  • Published online:
    22 July 2019
    Print publication:
    08 August 2019
  • The discovery of sound laws by comparing attested languages is the method which has unlocked the history of European languages stretching back thousands of years before the appearance of written records, e.g. Latin p- corresponds to English f- (pes, foot; primus, first; plenus, full). Although Burmese, Chinese, and Tibetan have long been regarded as related, the systematic exploration of their shared history has never before been attempted. Tracing the history of these three languages using just such sound laws, this book sheds light on the prehistoric language from which they descend. Written for readers with little linguistic knowledge of these languages, but fully explicit and copiously indexed for the specialist, this work will serve as the bedrock for future progress in the study of these languages.

  • 3 - The Finite Clause

  • EunHee Lee, State University of New York, Buffalo
  • Book:
    Korean Syntax and Semantics
    Published online:
    31 December 2018
    Print publication:
    10 January 2019, pp 94-134

  • Summary

    Chapter 3 explains how the situation description in the vP becomes a finite independent clause. Functional projections such as tense, modality, and speech act are discussed and analyzed. This chapter will illustrate the discourse sensitive nature of the clause structure in Korean: Categories such as evidentiality and speech act/force do not contribute to the truth conditions of the sentence but rather features pertaining to the use of the language and thus treated as instructions to update Common Ground.

  • 1 - Introduction

  • EunHee Lee, State University of New York, Buffalo
  • Book:
    Korean Syntax and Semantics
    Published online:
    31 December 2018
    Print publication:
    10 January 2019, pp 1-52

  • Summary

    This chapter has provided an overview of syntactic and semantic tools and frameworks that we adopt to analyze Korean in this book as well as a sneak preview of some of the topics that will be discussed in the book.

  • 4 - Nominal Arguments

  • EunHee Lee, State University of New York, Buffalo
  • Book:
    Korean Syntax and Semantics
    Published online:
    31 December 2018
    Print publication:
    10 January 2019, pp 135-183

  • Summary

    Chapter 4 examines the internal structure of nominal arguments and dependency marking, i.e., case, on the nominals. The puzzles of null arguments, double subjects, and case stacking will be solved in this chapter by appealing to information-structural concepts such as topic and focus.

  • 2 - Predicate and Arguments

  • EunHee Lee, State University of New York, Buffalo
  • Book:
    Korean Syntax and Semantics
    Published online:
    31 December 2018
    Print publication:
    10 January 2019, pp 53-93

  • Summary

    Chapter 2 examines the verbal projection in Korean, where lexical items are merged to build the argument and event structure. Major innovations of this chapter include a systematic classification of event types, a layered verb (called vP-shell) analysis for lexical causatives and ditransitive verbs, situation type shifters and modifiers such as grammatical aspect, adverbials and negation using the vP technology.

  • 6 - Complex Clauses

  • EunHee Lee, State University of New York, Buffalo
  • Book:
    Korean Syntax and Semantics
    Published online:
    31 December 2018
    Print publication:
    10 January 2019, pp 223-262

  • Summary

    Chapter 6 concerns complex clause-generating mechanisms where a finite clause is connected to other clauses through embedding, nominalization, relativization, coordination and subordination.

  • 7 - Conclusion

  • EunHee Lee, State University of New York, Buffalo
  • Book:
    Korean Syntax and Semantics
    Published online:
    31 December 2018
    Print publication:
    10 January 2019, pp 263-268

  • Summary

    Chapter 7 concludes the book by summarizing the preceding chapters, discussing the way in which Korean data contributes to the discovery of Universal Grammar, and considering future of the field of Korean linguistics, particularly with respect to general linguistics and its interaction with cognitive psychology.

  • 5 - Internal Merge

  • EunHee Lee, State University of New York, Buffalo
  • Book:
    Korean Syntax and Semantics
    Published online:
    31 December 2018
    Print publication:
    10 January 2019, pp 184-222

  • Summary

    Chapter 5 presents the kinds of Internal Merge operations that Korean utilizes, providing detailed analyses of scrambling, wh-movement and island/intervention effects.

Korean Syntax and Semantics
  • EunHee Lee
  • Published online:
    31 December 2018
    Print publication:
    10 January 2019
  • Korean has proven to be an invaluable language to theoretical linguists, providing abundant examples of, and counterexamples to, key theoretical issues at the forefront of modern linguistic theories. Exploring the Korean language from both a syntactic and semantic perspective, this book provides an up-to-date linguistic analysis of its structure, combining Minimalist Syntax with accompanying compositional formal semantics. EunHee Lee's detailed chapters cover the core architecture and phenomena of Korean, looking at the lexical layer, the functional layer, nominal structure, movements and complex clauses. A broad range of empirically and theoretically important phenomena are discussed, enabling students and professional linguists alike to understand the workings of the language in current theoretical frameworks. The book also includes discussion questions, exercises and a list of further reading to solidify the theoretical concepts, stimulate thinking and develop the ability to analyze Korean using theoretical tools.

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