The main goal of this paper is to reveal that Experiencer-Subject psych-verbs in Korean, which were once assumed to be simple, are in fact complicated, and that two types of Exp-Subj psych-verbs, [-transitive], behave not uniformly in several syntactico-semantic properties including causativity, relativization, nominalization, intensionality, and specificity To highlig..
This study is about North Koreans language assimilation process in South Korea one hundred North Koreans participated in language test and answered survey questions Using the data, two regression models are built 1) the model that estimates the impact of 10 factors such as education and TV watching hours on accuracyfluency 2) the model that estimates the impact of languag..
In an attempt to see how semantic aspects of the verb and subject affect the rate of erroneous L2 passivization of unaccusative verbs, the present study investigated 78 Korean college students` grammaticality judgment on English passive sentences The results of the study showed that 1) the semantic type of unaccusative verbs is related to the degree of difficulty that L2 l..
This paper argues that stress patterns that occur in zero derivation is best analyzed in Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky, 1993 McCarthy & Prince, 1995) in terms of faithfulness and lexically indexed markedness constraints This approach is shown to capture distinctions between generality and exceptionality of stress patterns in zero derivation Based on a variety of..
This paper reexamines the categorical status of the controversial Korean verbal inflectional suffix -te I show that an analysis treating it as a speaker-addressee-oriented tense marker makes it possible to account for its unusual constraints and its interaction with other tense markers At the same time I account for the Korean tense system in the context of cross-linguisti..