How do Korean speakers receive internally headed relative clauses?

• 영문명: How do Korean speakers receive internally headed relative clauses?
• 발행기관: 경희대학교 언어정보연구소
• 저자명: 이지은(Jieun Lee) 송상헌(Sanghoun Song)
• 간행물 정보: 『언어연구』제40권 제3호, 463~508쪽, 전체 46쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.12.31

영문 초록

This study examines how Korean internally headed relative clauses (IHRCs) are received by native speakers. Although previous studies have greatly enhanced our understanding of IHRCs by proposing a theoretical framework with which to explain their constraints, no attempt has been made to provide an empirical study of how Korean speakers understand IHRCs with support from appropriate statistical methods. Accordingly, the current study conducted a Likert-scale task experiment and a question-and-answer survey whose results were thoroughly analyzed with multiple statistical tools. The findings are as follows. First, certain examples that have specific grammatical and aspectual features are judged as having higher acceptability. Based on this observation, we propose the possibility that the Korean IHRC is an example of a verb-class-specific construction in which innovative use spreads through semantic similarity. Second, Korean IHRCs are received in three different ways by native speakers: One group of speakers accepts the IHRCs with entity construal, another group with event construal, and a third group of speakers does not accept the IHRCs at all. It is argued that these split interpretations can be understood by observing constructions that are structurally similar to IHRCs. This study contributes to relevant areas by providing an empirical study of Korean IHRCs.

목차

1. Introduction

2. The limited distribution of Korean IHRCs and relevant factors

3. Methodology

4. Results

5. General discussions

6. Conclusion

References

키워드

internally headed relative clauses acceptability judgment tests a verb-class-specific constructions semantic contagion statistical pre-emption