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The Characteristics of Case-omission in Spoken Korean

  • Journal of Humanities
  • 2009, (43), pp.29-59
  • Publisher : Institute for Humanities
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : December 31, 2008
  • Accepted : February 12, 2009

Lee, Sook 1

1국민대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This paper reviews the distributional conditions shown by omission of nominative case and accusative case appearing in spoken language. According to analyses of this paper, the omission conditions for both nominative and accusative cases share similar distributional characteristics. However, omission of the accusative case is evenly distributed without regard to environment, while the ommission of the nominative case is distributed unevenly, the distribution acutely sensitive to environmental factors. This paper therefore concludes that the omission of accusative case appears far more frequently than that of nominative case because the former does not show the sensitivity to the omission condition. Furthermore, the information of the omitted cases in the spoken language is primarily grasped by the thematic role from the argument structure of the related verb. However, when it takes on ambiguity, the dominative interpretation is selected by the distributive characteristics of the case omission.

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