This paper provides a unified analysis for the three types of right displacement in English as the clause-final right-displaced element has in common the function of specifyingelaborating on what has been left referentially indeterminate or blank in the preceding clause We take the surface make-up of the three constructions at issue to indicate that the right-displaced ele..
Korean Oriental Medicine has unequal access to some common linguistic resources that it shares with biomedicine under the dual medical system At the societal level, the biomedical linguistic hegemonies allow biomedicine to unmark its entities, while mark Oriental ones with han- Korean, as the prequel to the present study (Kim 2015c) illustrates However, there has bee..
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the empirical adequacy of the event-based language typology with special reference to English and Korean The event-based language typology classifies languages into I- and D-languages based on the importance of the initial and terminal bounds of an event with respects to the way the relevant languages use in the recognition of event..
The current research aims to show that a transitive predicateverb in one language may not necessarily be transitive in another An alternative argument structure, Alternative Argument Structure Hypothesis (AASH), is proposed and advocated in this paper in order to account for erroneous production patterns noted and observed in Kim (2001), Park (2013), and Hong (2015a, b..
This paper examines the behavior of predicational adverbs in a learner corpus of English, focusing on an overall distributional pattern, the correlation between adverbial meaning and position, and common error types Two types of essays (argumentative and narrative) produced by university freshmen at two proficiency levels (beginner and high-intermediate) were selected fo..
The present study aims at examining the similarities and differences in the published research article abstracts between native(NS) and non-native English speakers(NNS) Using the comparative analysis of two corpora, the study compares the top 10 most frequently used key words and concordance lines shown in each corpus and analyzes the two groups different perceptions, ..
This paper aims to develop a derivational approach to the syntactic alternation of English transitive phrasal verbs such as take out the rubbish and take the rubbish out It is argued that these two alternative verb phrases (VP) are equally derived from their more primitive rule or construction This construction is often called complex verb (or predicate) and notated as ..
The goal of this study is to investigate the use of the two English synonymous adjectives difficult and hard through BNC, and to examine Korean college studentsknowledge of difficulthardnoun expressions The main findings of this paper are as follows First, The adjective difficult is mainly (8333%) used to mean not easy to do or deal with, while hard is mainly (60%) u..
This paper explores ways of quantifying wellformedness based on Information Theoretic concepts such as Phonological Complexity (PC) Goldsmith (2002) proposed that as the wellformedness of a representation increases, PC, which is computed from the probabilities of component unigrams and bigrams of words, becomes lower The purpose of this paper is to propose the revised ..
It is highly likely that Korean college students often commit inadvertant speech errors of replacing t or d with palatoalveolar tf and d in the consonant clusters of tr and dr The writers presume that this is due to their confusion about the place of articulation of t and d with tf and d in tr or dr sequence, their lip-rounding difference from that of tf and d, and finall..
The main purpose of this study is to find out dimensions of English learning style which is manifest in English underachieving student in high school In this study, 148 English underachieving high school students responded to questionnaire when it comes to English learning style The items in the questionnaire were based on Learning Style Inventory (LSI) by Kolb (2007) who..
Korean is classified into classifier languages, which require a classifier regardless of whether nouns are count or mass, while English is a typical non-classifier language, where only mass nouns require classifiers when counting While most of the previous studies have focused on the acquisition order of classifiers based on their semantic features (e,g, human, shape, fun..
This study investigated the impact of a telecollaborative project with Australian peers on development of Korean elementary school students intercultural communicative competence 57 Korean elementary school students of grade five participated in the project with 11 topics for 8 months The responses from the 46 participants in the three ICC surveys and the data from 11..
The present study examined the effects of gender and grade level on English reading comprehension proficiency of young Korean English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Learners Through a nationwide reading comprehension assessment event, nine hundred seventy-nine young Korean EFL learners in Korean elementary school grades 1 through 6 were tested for their English reading c..