(The) syntax and semantics of Korean complex sentences : a corpus based study of the hierarchical structure of interclausal relations

학위논문(박사) --서울대학교 대학원 :언어학과,2008.8.Docto

형태 분석에 기반한 대조언어학적 관점에서

학위논문(석사)--서울대학교 대학원 :언어학과 언어학전공,2003.Maste

한국어 동사·어미 범주와 주어 인칭의 상관관계

This paper aims 10 show that there are some possibilities of discerning the person-type of subject, agent, experiencer by using the information extracted/retrieved from verb-ending complex, not from (pro)noun phrase And empirical/statistical data in a corpus analysis are given to prove our hypothesis. Through this, it is revealed that we can resolve the person (of ‘zero pronoun') on the basis of grammatical mechanism, rejecting the opinion that there is no person in Korean or that the person in Korean is expressed/activated at the pragmatic level. It is generally accepted that the subject can be easily omitted in Korean, in particular in spoken Korean and that the information with regard to person can be gained from extralinguistic knowledge, or context, utterance situation. But our research based on the authentic/real Korean data shows that the person is distinguishable at the morpho-syntactic level and that the problem of the so-called 'zero pronoun' can be resolved through the grammatical mechanism. In sum, we suggest that a (pro)noun-centric or lexical-based approach to the analysis of person be replaced by an ending-centric or grammatical-based approach.이 논문은 2002년도 한국학술진흥재단의 지원에 의하여 연구되었음(과제번호: KRF-2002-041-A00180, 과제명: 한국어 구문 분석을 위한 문법요소들의 관계망 구축