• 한국언어정보학회지:언어와정보
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.49-65
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• 2007

Since Perlmutter (1978) proposed the Unaccusativity Hypothesis, the past two decades have seen a flourish of studies investigating the potential validity of unaccusativity in Korean. The central contentious issues have been whether unaccusativity can also be assumed in Korean, and, if so, what criteria could be proposed to discern the unaccusativity among various predicates. In this paper, several suggestions made theoretically and experimentally to address the semantic and/or syntactic distinction of the two types of Korean intransitive predicates are critically reviewed and evaluated from the standpoint that there is a close correlation between syntax and lexical semantics of intransitives. It is proposed, then, that the Korean unaccusativity can be reliably differentiated through the combined semantic criteria of [${\pm}$agentive] and [${\pm}$active]. In addition, case alternations in long form negation constructions are shown to be the most reliable and valid syntactic criteria for testing Korean unaccusatives.

• 인지과학
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.41-46
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• 1998

이 논문에서는 뇌졸중으로 인한 Broca 유형의 실어증 환자가 회복 초기와 회복이 진행됨에 따라 발화하는 서술어의 논항 구조적 속성이 정상 언어 집단의 서술어 분포와 어떻게 다르며, 또한 편으로는 전도 실어증 환자의 서술어 분포와는 어떻게 다른지 세 환자와, 조건이 비슷한 정상인의 자유 발화 산출 자료를 분석하여 비교한다. Broca 유형 실어증 환자가 발화하는 서술어 중에서 비대격 동사가 차지하는 비율을 언어간 비교해 본 결과, 영어 실어증 환자의 경우에는 계사가 아닌 비대격 동사에 심한 어려움을 겪어 거의 산출되어 못하는 것으로 나타난 반면(Kegl 1995), 한국어 실어증 환자의 경우에는 별다른 어려움을 겪지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 이에 대한 설명으로 영어의 비계사 비대격 구문에서는 d-구조와 s-구조 사이에서 동사에 상대적인 논항 이동이 일어나는 데 반해, 한국어에서는 격 부여라는 동기로 유발되는 그러한 논항 이동이 없거나, 설사 있더라도 공허하기(vacuous) 때문에 비문법적 실어증 환자들이 어려움을 느끼지 않으리라는 제안을 한다.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.199-216
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• 2009

This study investigates how Korean speakers develop their interlanguage of English passive constructions with a reference to the learners' grammar proficiency levels. Sixty two college students of different levels of English participated in this study. They were asked to complete a sentence-completion task. Their production was classified into accurate passives, malformed passives, pseudo-passives, unaccusatives, and actives according to the use of transitive, ergative and unergative verbs. They then were further analyzed depending on the subjects' levels of grammar by three main factors: L1 transfer, the English voice system, and universal cognitive factors. The results showed that the subjects of the lower group produced more pseudo-passives, malformed passives, and overpassivization than those of the higher group, and even subjects of higher group still made passives for ergative verbs. It was also shown that L1 and universal factors had more influence on the lower group than on the higher group. Based on the analyses of the subjects' responses, the development of the English passive system by Korean learners is shown and some implications are suggested for effective teaching of English.