Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference (한국언어정보학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2007.11a
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- Pages.202-209
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- 2007
Co-Event Conflation for Compound Verbs in Korean
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Jun, Jong-Sup
(Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
- Published : 2007.11.01
Abstract
Compound verbs in Korean show properties of both syntactic phrases and lexical items. Earlier studies of compound verbs have either assumed two homonymous types, i.e. one as a syntactic phrase and the other as a lexical item, or posited some sort of transformation from a syntactic phrase into a lexical item. In this paper, I show empirical and conceptual problems for earlier studies, and present an alternative account in terms of Talmy's (2000) theory of lexicalization. Unlike Talmy who proposed [Path] conflation into [MOVE] for Korean, I suggest several types of [Co-Event] conflation; e.g. [
Keywords
- Compound verb;
- Cognitive semantics;
- Lexicalization;
- Conflation;
- Categorial conversion;
- Semi-productive morphology