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Semantic features, telicity, transitivity, subject animacy, have been argued to be intimately linked to grammatical aspect and thus, influence speakers’ choice between perfective and imperfective aspect. Precisely, the values of atelic, intransitive, and animate subject are argued to increase imperfective choices relative to the other value of that factor. The goal of this study is to examine Korean speakers’ sensitivity to such links between each of the three features and grammatical aspect in English. The results found that telicity and subject animacy, but not transitivity, significantly influence Korean speakers’ aspectual choices, and that telicity is a stronger predictor of Korean speakers’ choices than subject animacy. The unexpected result with transitivity was accounted for by invoking the inherent defect in the link between transitivity and grammatical aspect through telicity and the syntactically grounded nature of the link. We also considered and argued against two alternatives: frequency-based and L1-transfer based accounts. Each of the accounts is insufficient to account for the whole of the experimental data.

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Abstract
 1. Introduction
 2. Background
  2.1. Grammatical aspect: imperfective/perfective distinction
  2.2. Semantic features linked to grammatical aspect: telicity, transitivity, and subject animacy
  2.3. Related previous study: Fedder and Wagner 2014
  2.4. Hypotheses and predictions
 3. The experiment
  3.1. Participants
  3.2. The forced-choice sentence completion task
 4. Results and discussion
 5. Conclusion
 References

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• Eunjeong Oh [ 오은정 | Sangmyung University ]

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  언어정보 [LANGUAGE INFORMATION]

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• pISSN

  1226-8011

• eISSN

  2233-9213

• 수록기간

  1997~2019

• 십진분류

  KDC 705 DDC 405