
Korean Tense and Aspect in Narrative Discourse
Eunhee Lee(Author)
Saffron Books (Publisher)
Published on 25. July 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
135 pages
978-1-872843-43-8 (ISBN)
Description
Korean Tense and Aspect in Narrative Discourse argues for a discourse-based treatment of the temporal and aspectual categories in Korean through the quantitative analysis of corpus data, providing a systematic semantic analysis of those categories using a dynamic semantic tool, Discourse Representation Theory (Kamp and Reyle, 1993; van Eijck and Kamp, 1997). It represents the first formal discourse-level analysis of the Korean tense and aspect system and makes a valuable contribution not only to the study of Korean linguistics but also to the general linguistics of temporal semantics. In addition to her analysis of tense and aspect, Dr Lee also examines the current research methods of dynamic semantics and the contemporary issues at the forefront of natural language semantics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
EAPGROUP
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-872843-43-8 (9781872843438)
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Person
Dr EunHee Lee is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Her main research area is natural language semantics, with a special focus on temporal semantics in narratives. She obtained her PhD from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She has published articles in major linguistics journals, including Journal of Semantics, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Linguistics, and Journal of East Asian Linguistics. She previously taught at Indiana University and the University of California, Los Angeles.
Content
Series Editors' Note 7 Preface 9 Abbreviations 10 Chapter One | Introduction 11 Chapter Two | Dynamic Analysis of Tense and Aspect 15 2.1 Traditional Truth-conditional Analyses of Tense and Their Problems 15 2.2 Dynamic Semantic Approach to Tense and Aspect 22 2.2.1 Motivations for Dynamic Approach 22 2.2.2 Discourse Representation Theory 24 Chapter Three | Overview of the Korean Tense and Aspect System 35 3.1 Lexical Aspect 37 3.2 Grammatical Aspect 44 3.2.1 The Imperfective Forms 44 3.2.2 The Perfective Forms 48 3.3 Tense 50 3.3.1 The Past Forms 50 3.3.2 The Non-past Forms 53 Chapter Four | The Past Forms -ess and -essess in Korean 57 4.1 Interpretation of -ess and -essess Sentences 57 4.1.1 Multiple Interpretations of -ess 57 4.1.2 Interpretation of -essess Sentences and the Difference between -ess and -essess 61 4.2 An Analysis of Narrative Discourse 67 4.2.1 Narrative Progression with -ess 56 4.2.2 Flashback Effect with -essess 72 Chapter Five | The Imperfective Forms -e ka and -e o in Korean 81 5.1 Interpretation of -eka and -e o Sentences 82 5.2 An Analysis of Narrative Discourse 85 5.2.1 Temporal Inclusion with -e o 86 5.2.2 Narrative Progression with -e ka 93 Chapter Six | The Perfective Forms -e noh and -e twu in Korean 101 6.1 Interpretation of -e noh and -e twu Sentences 101 6.2 An Analysis of Narrative Discourse 106 6.2.1 Narrative Progression with -e noh 106 6.2.2 Temporal Inclusion with -e twu 114 Chapter Seven | Conclusion 123 Appendix: Operational Tests for Lexical Aspect 125 Bibliography 127 Index 133