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  • 5 - Gerund phrases and mixed categories

  • Jong-Bok Kim, Kyung Hee University, Seoul
  • Book:
    The Syntactic Structures of Korean
    Published online:
    05 July 2016
    Print publication:
    28 July 2016, pp 104-120

  • Summary

    One of the main puzzles in the Korean verbal gerund phrases is that they display a mix of nominal and verbal properties. This has provided a challenge to syntactic analyses with a strict version of X-bar theory. Various approaches have been proposed to solve this puzzle, but most have ended up abandoning or modifying fundamental theoretical conditions such as endocentricity, lexicalism, and null licensing. This chapter shows that the multiple inheritance system employed within a construction-based grammar can offer us a clean analysis of the mixed properties we find in Korean gerund constructions.

    Verbal and nominal properties

    Like English gerund phrases (GPs), Korean GPs also internally exhibit verbal properties and externally display nominal properties (see, among others, Chung et al. 2001, Kim and Yang 2005). Internal verbal properties are prevalent. One telling piece of evidence comes from the inheritance of arguments from the lexemic verb from which the gerund is derived. As shown in (1), the gerund is not different from the tensed verb of the embedded clause in selecting arguments:

    (1) a. [Kim-i ecey ku chayk-ul/*uy ilk-ess-ta]-ko

    Kim-NOM yesterday that book-ACC/*GEN read-PST-DECL-COMP

    sayngkakha-n-ta

    think-PRES-DECL

    ‘(I) think Kim read the book yesterday.’

    b. [Kim-i ecey ku chayk-ul/*uy ilk-ess-um]-i

    Kim-NOM yesterday that book-ACC/*GEN read-PST-NMLZ-NOM

    myenghwakha-ta

    clear-DECL

    ‘Kim's having read the book yesterday is clear.’

    Various other phenomena also show that GPs are internally similar to VPs. Consider the following:

    (2) a. Kim-i ku chayk-ul pwunmyenghi ilk-ess-um

    Kim-NOM that book-ACC evidently read-PST-NMLZ

    ‘Kim's having evidently read the book.’

    b. Kim-i chayk-ul ppalli/*ppalun ilk-um

    Kim-NOM book-ACC fast(adv)/*fast(adj) read-NMLZ

    ‘Kim's reading books fast.’

    c. Kim-i chayk-ul an ilk-um

    Kim-NOM book-ACC not read-NMLZ

    ‘Kim's not reading books.’

    As illustrated in (2a), the GP construction can include a sentential adverb; it can be modified by a VP adverb as in (2b), or can be negated by the sentential negator an as in (2c).

    In addition, an auxiliary verb can be realized as a gerund verb form, as shown in (3a). The sentence with a gerund also allows free scrambling. The example in (3b) illustrates that the object of a gerund, just like that of a finite verb, can equally be scrambled to the sentence-initial position.

The Syntactic Structures of Korean
  • A Construction Grammar Perspective
  • Jong-Bok Kim
  • Published online:
    05 July 2016
    Print publication:
    28 July 2016
  • Covering both core and peripheral phenomena, The Syntactic Structures of Korean is a concrete and precise grammar of the language. Based on the framework of Sign-based Construction Grammar, it provides a grammar of Korean which is computationally implementable and cognitively viable. Remarkably broad, yet in-depth, it is an outstanding analysis of Korean syntax and semantics which will be welcomed by those working in linguistics and the Korean language.

The Social Life of the Japanese Language
  • Cultural Discourse and Situated Practice
  • Shigeko Okamoto, Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith
  • Published online:
    05 July 2016
    Print publication:
    04 August 2016
  • Why are different varieties of the Japanese language used differently in social interaction, and how are they perceived? How do honorifics operate to express diverse affective stances, such as politeness? Why have issues of gendered speech been so central in public discourse, and how are they reflected and refracted in language use as social practice? This book examines Japanese sociolinguistic phenomena from a fascinating new perspective, focusing on the historical construction of language norms and its relationship to actual language use in contemporary Japan. This socio-historically sensitive account stresses the different choices which have shaped Japanese and Western sociolinguistics and how varieties of Japanese, honorifics and politeness, and gendered language have emerged in response to the socio-political landscape in which a modernizing Japan found itself.

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