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- Title
AGREEMENT IN PROMISSIVE, IMPERATIVE, AND EXHORTATIVE CLAUSES.
- Authors
Pak, Miok; Portne, Paul; Zanutti, Raffaella
- Abstract
One of the unique features of Korean is that it marks sentences used to promise with the same grammatical mechanism - a paradigm of sentence final particles - with which it marks other clause types, like declaratives, interrogatives, and imperatives. In this paper we investigate this cross-linguistically rare type of PROMISSIVES and argue that they are members of the broader clause type of JUSSIVES, along with imperatives and exhortatives. However, within the jussive clause type, promissives, imperatives, and exhortatives differ from each other in having not only different sentence final particles but also different subjects. We argue that these two differences are correlated in such a way as to distinguish the three distinct clause types, promissives, imperatives, and exhortatives. We specifically argue that the jussive particle (sentence final particle in jussive clauses) is the head of a Jussive Phrase which carries person features and that the jussive particle enters an agreement relation with the subject. In studying various types of subjects allowed in both root and embedded jussive clauses we further argue that the Jussive head, as well as null pronouns in Korean has a shiftable person features while overt pronouns have unshiftable person features.
- Subjects
AGREEMENT (Grammar); IMPERATIVE (Grammar); EXHORTATION (Rhetoric); KOREAN language; CLAUSES (Grammar); SIMILARITY (Language learning)
- Publication
Korean Linguistics, 2008, Vol 14, Issue 1, p157
- ISSN
0257-3784
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/kl.14.07mdp