Overt subject NPs as a contrast marker in Korean discourse

• 발행기관: 경희대학교 언어정보연구소
• 저자명: Narah Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『언어연구』제38권 제2호, 365~393쪽, 전체 29쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2021.06.30

영문 초록

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.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Overt subject and contrast

3. Data

4. Overt subject in explicit contrast

5. Overt subject in implicit contrast

6. Conclusion

References

키워드

overt subject contrastive candidate explicit contrast implicit contrast Korean discourse