2016, Vol.54, No.

Korean Semantics 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.11

pISSN : 1226-7198 / eISSN : 2734-0171
https://journal.kci.go.kr/semantics

The purpose of this study is to analyze the polysemy of the connective ending '-어서(-eoseo)' in terms of cognitive linguistics. This corpus-driven study was conducted as the basis of sejong spoken corpus to understand the actual language usage patterns, and consequently ‘-어서(-eoseo)’, which has distinct four types of senses; ‘precedence’, ‘reason’, ‘background’, and ‘method’, and one indistinct sense ‘purpose’ is verified as polysemy. Moreover, it is confirmed that sense is not distinguished with clear boundary, but has continuous volumetric properties. ‘-eoseo’ has been extended into ‘reason’, ‘background’, and ‘method’ on ‘precedence’. As a result, this paper is understood the metonymy is act as a synchronization mechanism. Semantically, in this process, temporality is weakened gradually in semantically, and the syntactic constraint gradually eased.

The aim of the study is to examine similarities and differences of the ‘passive-by itself’ construction that expressed ‘being damaged’ by spontaneous situation among several types of Korean passive construction and anticausative construction that mentioned in language typology, to get to know ‘passive-by itself’ construction has anticausative feature. Korean ‘passive-by itself’ construction has a lot in common morphologically․syntactically․semantically with anticausative construction of Indo-European, it unites in points that there is particularly no agent in sentence and it shows that event which happened spontaneously. Unlike anticausative construction ; however, cannot imply agent syntactically and semantically, there is able to ambiguous constructions that imply agent in Korean ‘passive-by itself’ construction. This study shows the reason why Korean ‘passive-by itself’ construction is expressed by passive verb and anticausative construction of Indo-European is expressed by reflexive. In addition, this study distinguished with ‘passive-by itself’ construction by applying ambiguous construction. There are a lot of ambiguous construction in Korean. When we make sentences that depend on context, we have to consider whether the agent should be places or not in order to subject constraint in connection with animacy hierarchy. Furthermore, referring to semantic map and semantic model of Hapelmath(1987), this study suggests meaning of Korean passive verb and Indo-European reflexive. While Indo-European reflexive has each meaning by sequential derivation, Korean passive verb shows phenomenon that meaning changed according to cause material each in a ’passive’ category.

This study is to investigate the trend of pragmatics in Korean language with concrete research findings. There were limitations in looking at all research results from pragmatic studies, but the study was to derive the characteristics of pragmatics study which were not dealt in the existing pragmatics study papers and was to address the trend of its study until recently since 2000. Pragmatics is an important area of research in exploring the pragmatic aspects of Korean language and being grafted and applied to various fields. In the early years pragmatics was introduced to Korean language study, it introduced the theory of foreign language's pragmatics or applied it into Korean language simply. However, various research methods of pragmatics have been introduced since the 1990s and the horizons of pragmatics in Korean language have been widened. Since the 2000s, traditional research areas of pragmatics have been composed of discourse analysis, speech acts, etc rather than implication, and are based on designing teaching. learning courses in language and Korean language education. Studies that the pragmatic research results have been reflected in the curriculum are in progress.