• 한국영어학회지:영어학
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.651-671
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• 2001

There are several English constructions in which a certain constituent appears to the left of its canonical position, typically sentence-initially, leaving its canonical position empty. Such constructions involve Left-dislocation and Y-movement. These operations are called ‘Preposing.’ The preposed constituent of such constructions is generally regarded as the topic of the sentence which involves that constituent. Topics must have at least two features; ‘aboutness’ and ‘givenness.’ The feature ‘aboutness’ defines the range of comment, and the feature ‘givenness’ means ‘informationally old or given.’ The purpose of this paper is to show that the function of Preposing is to reinforce the aboutness of the preposed constituent of a sentence and that most preposed constituents have givenness. We examined Preposing for this purpose. Tough-movement and Passivization were examined also, because they have characteristics informationally similar to those of Preposing.

• 한국언어정보학회지:언어와정보
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.39-56
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• 2009

This paper investigates ordering alternation phenomena in Korean using the dative construction data from Sejong Corpus of Modern Korean (Kim, 2000). The paper first shows that syntactic weight and information structure are distinct and independent factors that influence word order in Korean. Moreover, it reveals that heaviness and givenness compete each other and exert diverging effects on word order, which contrasts the converging effects of these factors shown in word orders of right-branching languages like English. The typological variation of syntactic weight effect poses interesting theoretical and empirical questions, which are discussed in relation to processing efficiency in ordering.

• 한국언어정보학회지:언어와정보
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.19-36
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• 2015

The aim of this paper is to investigate the usage of Korean markers -(n)un and -i/ka in editorial texts focusing on information structure. Noun phrases ending with the markers -(n)un and -i/ka were annotated semi-automatically using a corpus obtained from an online newspaper. Two important factors to determine the choice of markers were examined with the annotated data: referential givenness/newness and position in a sentence. Referential givenness and newness were adopted as indicators of information structure, topic and focus respectively. In addition to quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis was conducted on the selected data. The results suggest that both the marker -(n)un and -i/ka could carry a topic and a focus reading. Sentence position also played a crucial role in determining the marker, and the marker -i/ka was used more frequently in a later position of a sentence than the marker -(n)un.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제33권
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• pp.407-459
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• 2013

The paper pragmatically analyzes ellipsis in Russian and Polish colloquial and informal texts. The famous Polish writer Sławomir $Mro{\dot{z}}ek^{\prime}s$ "Exit to the South", written in Polish and Russian is used as a material for the analysis. Russian and Polish ellipsis in colloquial and informal texts have in common that the givenness and subjecthood of the elliptical co-referent play a crucial role. However, the ellipsis in two languages also has differences in many ways. Above all, in the Polish texts of colloquial and informal style, a theme is likely to be elliptical and the coreferential relation reaches to an extra-sentential antecedent, while the ellipsis in analysed Russian texts in most cases requires coordinate, subordinate or relative clauses, and the elliptical co-referent tends to have an intra-sentential antecedent. The ellipsis of the theme-subject is unmarked in Polish, where every verbal form has an ending denoting person. Unlike formal style which often allows explicit noun subject, Polish text of colloquial and informal style prefer null form of the subject in most cases. If Polish sentences have explicit theme-subjects, they disambiguate intervening and main themes, and indicate the contrast, the focus, the introduction of new narratives or the change of speaker's point of view. Sometimes direct speeches and deictic pronouns also need explicit theme-subjects in Polish sentences. On the other hand, the ellipsis of the theme-subject is marked in Russian even in colloquial and informal texts. The theme-subject can be deleted in Russian colloquial and informal texts, if the subject is a form of the first or the second person, or if the aspect and the tense of the antecedent sentence's verb are the same as those of the given sentence's verb and both the antecedent and the coreferential word have the nominative case.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제45권
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• pp.381-431
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• 2016

본고에서는 슬라브어, 특히 러시아어, 폴란드어, 체코어, 불가리아어 담화 직시의 전반적 특징을 살펴본다. 슬라브어에서는 무엇보다도 근칭지시사가 담화 직시사로 기능하는 경향이 강하다는 공통점이 있지만, 개별 슬라브어에서 담화 직시사의 구체적 사용 양상은 상이하다. 폴란드어와 체코어에서는 원칭지시대명사와 인칭대명사가 담화 직시사로 거의 기능하지 못하는 반면, 러시아어는 원칭지시대명사가 담화 직시사로 활발하게 사용되며, 인칭대명사도 사용 가능하다. 불가리아어에서는 원칭지시대명사가 담화 직시사로 거의 사용되지 않는 반면, 인칭대명사는 자주 사용된다. 이와 같이 슬라브어 담화 직시사는 개별 언어에서 상이하게 직시와 대용 기능을 수행하는데, 근칭, 원칭 지시대명사와 인칭대명사가 모두 담화 직시사로 기능하는 러시아어에서는 그것의 직시성이 다른 언어에 비해 두드러지며, 가장 분석적인 슬라브어인 불가리아어에서는 인칭대명사의 사용이 잦아 다른 슬라브어에 비해 담화 직시사의 대용 기능이 두드러진다.