The Morphosyntax of Jejuan –ko Clause Linkages

Kim, Soung-U

Abstract

While clause linkage is a relatively understudied area within Koreanic linguistics, the Korean –ko clause linkage has been studied more extensively. Authors have deemed it interesting since depending on the successive/non-successive interpretation of its events, a –ko clause linkage exhibits all or no properties of what is traditionally known as coordination or subordination. Jejuan –ko clauses may look fairly similar to Korean on the surface, and exhibit a similar lack of semantic specification. This study shows that the traditional, dichotomous coordination-subordination opposition is not applicable to Jejuan –ko clauses. I propose that instead of applying a-priori categories to the exploration of clause linkage in Koreanic varieties, one should apply a multidimensional model that lets patterns emerge in an inductive way.

Citation

Kim, S.-U. (2019). The Morphosyntax of Jejuan –ko Clause Linkages. Language research, 55(2), 315-354. https://doi.org/10.30961/lr.2019.55.2.315

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jul 20, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Aug 31, 2019
• Publication Date: Sep 3, 2019
• Deposit Date: Sep 9, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 9, 2019
• Journal: Language Research
• Print ISSN: 0254-4474
• Electronic ISSN: 2586-7113
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 55
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 315-354
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.30961/lr.2019.55.2.315
• Keywords: Koreanic languages, Koreanic linguistics, Jejuan, Jejueo, clause linkage, Ceycwu dialect, Cheju dialect, Korean dialectology, -ko converbs, coordination, subordination, Korean clause linkage, Koreanic clause linkage, Jejuan clause linkage, Jejuan grammar, Jeju Studies, Cheju Studies, Ceycwu Studies
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.30961/lr.2019.55.2.315
• Related Public URLs: https://www.elanguageresearch.org/archive/view_article?pid=lr-55-2-315
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