The paper seeks to conduct a phonetic assessment of exceptional tone spreading by comparing tone spreading cases in Yoruba, Yao, and South Kyeongsang Korean The tone alternations in the three languages have been analyzed as a rightward tone spreading in previous studies A major finding in the present study is the asymmetric behavior of high tones in the languages Unlike th..
Like English, Korean employs several types of cleft constructions This paper reviews the grammatical properties of two main types of Korean cleft constructions pseudo cleft and inverted cleft construction In particular, it reviews syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of these two types and then discusses the interaction among grammatical levels The paper than s..
Syntacticians have begun to take note of the emerging role of events in the mapping from lexical semantics to syntax ever since Davidson (1967) laid out a theory involving action (or event) expressions by defining events as primitive individuals Extensional verbs like see become central in this respect since they express relations between individuals and events In this pap..
This paper compares Korean and English expressions where personification is used for description of an entity without human characteristics in reality Personification is a major mode of figurative expression widely used in human languages, but the specific source and target domains for personification varies from language to language as personification is closely related..
This article analyses major errors observed in French composition, especially those closely connected to syntactic structures I have collected the relevant data from a French composition class for sophomore students in a university During my analysis, I first show how Korean sentence structures are transmitted to French in composition Then, I show that many errors occur..
The purpose of this study is to suggest improvement listening textbooks published in Japan Recently, various textbooks of Korean language are published in Japan Some listening textbooks are developed newly, too However, the study on the textbook of the Korean language in Japan is not yet developed For improving Korean listening textbooks in Japan, I analyzed the listenin..
In spite of its self-defensive assertions, Deep Ecology cannot avoid many-layered criticisms against its view of nature and the two entailed fulcrums such as Self-realization and biospherical egalitarianism Its assumption that nature has its own ``intrinsic value`` invites a variety of reactions of poststructuralists, social ecologists, ecofeminists, even pragmatic env..
This paper reconsiders the role of humane studies focused on the treatment of human pain by comparing Shen-nong(), Chinese god of medicine, with Asklepios, a Greek god of medicine and healing, finally to find the common and different concepts of health and healing between China and the west It is true that thanks to the rapid development of science and technology, m..
The articles on the Gita are grouped into four The first is those which have superficial remarks on it with one or two sentences The second is those of professionals not in Gitalogy(Study of the Gita) but in their own field such as philosophy, religious studies, mathematics, medicine and education They select particular features for their own purpose Usually the cosmology o..
Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams had a special relationship They both attended Penn State University They became friends while they were in university and became close fellow poets later and remained so throughout their whole lives Pound helped Williams make his debut as a poet and publish poems in a famous magazine In this process, Williams was naturally influenced..
This paper is to examine Zen Buddhism compared with Derrida`s deconstruction Derida`s intention of it was to search the nature of language to find the universal nature that precedes all language and to discover the border between nature and artifice in the origins and limits of language As Buddhism was translated from the Sanskrit word ``dhyana`` meaning ``meditation``, Ze..
Many ecological problems arise from economic development Though the term ecology first appeared in the late nineteenth century, we didn`t pay much attention to the environment at that time In the West especially, people took advantage of nature as they liked, for nature was thought of as an object to be used, cultivated and exploited Until nature began to retaliate by way o..
Death is one of the most frequent themes both in western and oriental literary works In western world where Christianity has been the dominant religious tenet, a number of literary works of art have dealt with death in terms of otherworldliness For example, John Donne, the seventeen-century British poet, vividly personifies death in his poetical works Emily Dickinson, the ..
Walt Whitman`s intention, as he said in the preface of Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets, was to chant the songs of the body and existence in Leaves of Grass and then to compose another volume on the soul But he didn`t write another volume but rewrote and enlarged Leaves of Grass Thus, Leaves of Grass became songs of body and soul Whitman even asserts that he is the poet of t..