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A Study of Relative Clauses in Koreasn Used by Korean Learners
Cross-Cultural Studies
2010,
19(), pp.359-388
DOI : 10.21049/ccs.2010.19..359
Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
Research Area : Literature
DOI : 10.21049/ccs.2010.19..359
Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
Research Area : Literature
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This study is aimed to investigate the aspect of using relative clauses in Korean. The data used for this study were extracted from the Korean text books for the foreign students and from the Chinese students' Korean compositions. They are the learners of Korean language at the early intermediated stage. As the result of analyzing them, the followings were found Ⅰ)the majority of relative clauses in Korean consists of left-branching sentences, ⅱ)The number of the subject relative clauses was higher than object ones in both. In the aspect of using relative clauses subject ones were used even more frequently than object ones. This result is corresponded to the previous thesis, "the subject relative clauses were acquired earlier than object ones". ⅲ)The relative clauses that those with a head noun function as subject in the main sentence showed in higher proportion in comparison of those as object. That is, this study showed that subjects in the relative clauses were used more frequently than objects in them at the early intermediated stage. Finally, this study analyzed the errors of adnominal ending usage occurring in their compositions. More errors occurred when adjective form ended with '-hada' is changed into adnominal ending one.
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