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Korean Honorific Particle ‘-si’ and Inanimacy

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2004, 15(), pp.273-301
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

CHOE, Jae-Woong 1

1고려대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Choe, Jae-Woong. 2004. Korean Honorific Particle ‘-si’ and Inanimacy. Korean Semantics, 15. Park Lyang-kyu(1975) proposed a hypothesis that an honorific noun in Korean becomes [-animate], and the ungrammatical result can subsequently be salvaged by another “grammatical process” that turns the predicate into one that can ‘agree’ with the now inanimate honorific subject. His argument is mainly based on certain similarity in surface distribution between honorific terms and inanimate nouns. The purpose of this paper is to argue that his observation and generalization cannot stand as they are since they are based on a very limited set of data, which can be falsified when a more comprehensive set of data is considered. It is claimed that the inanimacy hypothesis for the subject honorification yet needs further argumentation to be accepted as a viable one.

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