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- Title
An experimental study on interpretive properties of multiple nominative/subject constructions (MNCs/MSCs) in Korean.
- Authors
Ji-Hye Kim
- Abstract
This study investigated interpretive (i.e. semantic and pragmatic) properties in Korean Multiple Nominative/Subject Constructions (MNCs/MSCs), through an experimental syntactic study. An experiment was designed to test key properties (i.e., characteristic property and newsworthy property) of MNCs/MSCs in Korean that have been regarded as contributing to felicity of MNCs/MSCs (Yoon 2004, 2007, 2009). Forty Korean native speakers were tested over Acceptability Judgment Task. The test materials were composed of 60 Korean sentences representing the two interpretive properties of MNCs/MSCs - characteristic property of Sentential Predicate (SP) and newsworthiness of Major Subject (MS). Overall results showed that Korean native speakers seem to treat MNCs/MSCs with both characteristic SP and newsworthy MS more felicitous than the sentences in less than ideal conditions.
- Subjects
ABSOLUTE constructions (Grammar); KOREAN language; SEMANTICS; NATIVE language; SENTENCES (Grammar); PRAGMATICS
- Publication
Linguistic Research, 2015, Vol 32, Issue 2, p379
- ISSN
1229-1374
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17250/khisli.32.2.201508.004