@article{ART001915856},
author={Park, Chulwoo},
title={The Linguistic Nature of ‘Contrastiveness’ Meaning in Korean—with Reference to the Information Structure},
journal={Korean Semantics},
issn={1226-7198},
year={2014},
volume={45},
pages={129-157}
TY - JOUR
AU - Park, Chulwoo
TI - The Linguistic Nature of ‘Contrastiveness’ Meaning in Korean—with Reference to the Information Structure
JO - Korean Semantics
PY - 2014
VL - 45
IS - null
PB - The Society Of Korean Semantics
SP - 129
EP - 157
SN - 1226-7198
AB - In this paper we investigate what the nature of ‘contrastiveness’ meaning in Korean is with reference to the information structure. By far, -{neun} has been considered to have two meanings depending on its distribution in a sentence, one topic marker and the other ‘contrast’ marker, and many Korean grammar textbooks have assumed that ‘contrast’ is the basic meaning of –{nean}. Moreover, recently there arose an argument that –{nean} can even be a contrastive focus marker, paying no attention to its topic marking function.
Here we argue that in reality the ‘contrast’ meaning of -{neun} is a byproduct of paralleling more than one topic constructions, or implicature caused by ‘contrastive stress.’ According to Dretske(1972) and Chafe(1970), contrastive statements caused by contrastively stressing a constituent within their neutral pair sentences can evoke a set of alternatives for that position and the stress asserts that the selected one is the right choice out of the set. And this can also trigger an implicature that the alternative(s) of the set will not fit for the frame.
Though contrastiveness caused by ‘contrastive stress’ seem to have the same scope with topic or focus, it is not always so. The prosodic nature of contrastive stress should be examined more carefully according to the informational nature of the linguistic units.
KW - {는}(-{neun});화제(topic);대조(contrast);대조성(contrastivness);대조 화제(contrastive topic);대조 초점(contrastive focus);총망라성(exhaustiveness);배타성(exclusiveness);명제 대조 화제(proposition contrastive topic);초점(focus);정보 초점(informational focus);확인 초점(identificational focus);대조 강세(contrastive stress);대화상의 함축(conversational implicature)
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Park, Chulwoo. (2014). The Linguistic Nature of ‘Contrastiveness’ Meaning in Korean—with Reference to the Information Structure. Korean Semantics, 45, 129-157.
Park, Chulwoo. 2014, "The Linguistic Nature of ‘Contrastiveness’ Meaning in Korean—with Reference to the Information Structure", Korean Semantics, vol.45, pp.129-157.
Park, Chulwoo "The Linguistic Nature of ‘Contrastiveness’ Meaning in Korean—with Reference to the Information Structure" Korean Semantics 45 pp.129-157 (2014) : 129.
Park, Chulwoo. The Linguistic Nature of ‘Contrastiveness’ Meaning in Korean—with Reference to the Information Structure. 2014; 45 129-157.
Park, Chulwoo. "The Linguistic Nature of ‘Contrastiveness’ Meaning in Korean—with Reference to the Information Structure" Korean Semantics 45(2014) : 129-157.
Park, Chulwoo. The Linguistic Nature of ‘Contrastiveness’ Meaning in Korean—with Reference to the Information Structure. Korean Semantics, 45, 129-157.
Park, Chulwoo. The Linguistic Nature of ‘Contrastiveness’ Meaning in Korean—with Reference to the Information Structure. Korean Semantics. 2014; 45 129-157.
Park, Chulwoo. The Linguistic Nature of ‘Contrastiveness’ Meaning in Korean—with Reference to the Information Structure. 2014; 45 129-157.
Park, Chulwoo. "The Linguistic Nature of ‘Contrastiveness’ Meaning in Korean—with Reference to the Information Structure" Korean Semantics 45(2014) : 129-157.
