Temporal mismatches and the acceptability of tenseless coordinate constructions in Korean

• 발행기관: 경희대학교 언어정보연구소
• 저자명: Sang-Hee Park Jungsoo Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『언어연구』제38권 제2호, 301~327쪽, 전체 27쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2021.06.30

영문 초록

In Korean, non-final conjuncts in coordinate constructions may appear without the tensed verb - as in Right Peripheral Ellipsis - or without the tense morpheme alone - as in bare ko-coordination. This paper presents a formal acceptability judgment study that explored whether and to what extent Korean speakers accept mismatches of temporal information between the conjuncts in these constructions. The study examined the factors whose effects have been controversial in previous theoretical studies: temporal reference (i.e., whether the conjuncts match in tense) and temporal organization (i.e., whether the conjuncts are ordered sequentially or reversed) across three coordinate structures (i.e., Right Peripheral Ellipsis, bare ko-coordination, and full coordination). The results show evidence of the effects of these factors on bare ko-coordination and evidence of the effect of temporal reference on Right Peripheral Ellipsis. They also reveal that Korean speakers exhibit a great deal of inter-speaker variation in their assessment of temporal mismatches in these constructions. We discuss the implications of the results for both theoretical. and psycholinguistic research.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Asymmetry of temporal reference and variation in the organization of time

3. Experiment

4. General discussion

5. Conclusion

References

키워드

Right Peripheral Ellipsis (RPE) bare ko-coordination temporal mismatches acceptability judgment Korean