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Aspects of Meaning Acquisition and Development of the ‘gaji-da’ Construction in Korean

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2008, 27(), pp.179-198
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

LeeJongyeol 1

1대구교육대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to investigate the semantic characteristics and developmental changes of the Possession Construction in Korean young children's. Data are gathered using a interview and free-talking conversation from Korean-speaking children's, at the mean ages 3~6-years-olds(49, 84, 96, 84 participants per age group). Possession explains the relationship that exists between a possessor and object. The results are as follows; First, the concept of possession contain within it the process that is the event of conveying possession and the state of possession as well. The construction ‘gaji-da’ were widely used in Korean to express the possessive event or state. Second, the construction ‘gaji-da’ advanced from possessive construction, change-of-state construction to cause-result construction. Third, the predicate ‘gaji-da’ represents the change of possessive state with activity because ‘gaji-da’ is combined with ‘-go + Verb’ to create a resulting state. Forth, the cause-result construction represents to aspects of cognitive understanding about the possessive action and possessive state. The development of Construction is closely tied to be a embodied experience of event scenes.

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