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Grammaticalization of Korean and Japanese Exceptive Expressions: from the viewpoint of Typology

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2012, (35), pp.137-151
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature

Park Kanghun 1

1한국외국어대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This paper aims to clarify (i) grammaticalization of Korean and Japanese exclusive expressions such as pakk-ey/oe-ey and hoka/igai from the viewpoint of linguistic typology, and (ii) what kinds of principles and mechanisms work there. The proposals of this paper are as follows:a. Grammaticalization of exclusive expressions in human languages such as pakk-ey/oe-ey in Korean, hoka/igai in Japanese, but in English, auβer in German and buiten in modern Dutch is cross-linguistically quite similar, that is, their usage originally comes from 'the out', which is also supported by their etymology. b. Grammaticalization processes of the expressions in Korean and Japanese are also quite similar as followed:(i) semantic change: physical space > non-physical space > exclusion (ii) categorical change: noun > adverb > postposition/negative sensitive item In addition, the above processes are similar to ones of the other languages. Therefore, it can be generalized that the exclusive expressions in human languages similarly undergo the semantic and categorcial changes. c. [Principles and mechanisms]: the semantic change can be explained by decategorization in terms of grammaticalization theory and the categorical change can be described by unidirectionality.

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