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This study examines how Korean and Chinese represent the same achievement events differently and investigates which stage of an event is highlighted in each language. Although many achievement verbs have corresponding forms across the two languages, differences emerge in actual usage. For example, Korean expressions such as “I searched for it for a long time but could not find it” or “I kept persuading him, but it did not work” are natural, whereas their direct Chinese counterparts are often unacceptable. This study explores the source of this contrast. Previous studies have generally characterized achievement events as event types involving the attainment of a result. However, actual language use shows that the process leading to the result also plays an important role in event interpretation. Based on this observation, the present study analyzes achievement events in terms of three stages: the preparatory stage (P-stage), the final point (F-stage), and the result stage (R-stage), and compares how Korean and Chinese profile these stages. The analysis focuses on four pairs of corresponding verbs: to get off work(출근하다) / xiàbān( ), to search for(찾다) / zhǎo(dào)( ( )), to persuade(설득하다) / shuōfú( ), and to solve(해결하다) / jiějué( ). The comparison is based on four diagnostic criteria: duration expressions, repetitive expressions, auxiliary constructions, and result negation. The results show that Korean tends to foreground the preparatory stage of an event, allowing the same verb to be used even when result attainment remains unspecified. As a result, expressions followed by result denial are often acceptable. Chinese, by contrast, tends to distinguish more clearly between the process leading to a result and the attainment of the result itself through verb choice, resultative constructions, word order, and other grammatical devices. Once result attainment is encoded, subsequent denial of the same result becomes difficult. The contrast is also evident in auxiliary constructions. Korean can extend or elaborate the preparatory stage through constructions such as seoldeukhae boda‘try to persuade’, haegyeolhae gada‘move toward solving’, and chajanaeda‘find out’. Chinese, on the other hand, typically relies on resultative complements, adverbs, or additional syntactic elements to distinguish between the process and the result. The findings suggest that the difference between Korean and Chinese is not simply a matter of lexical meaning. Rather, it reflects a difference in which stage of an achievement event is most prominently represented in discourse. Korean tends to make the preparatory stage more visible, whereas Chinese more directly encodes the final point and the result stage. This perspective provides a useful account of interpretation differences between corresponding expressions in the two languages and offers implications for Korean language education.

목차

1. 머리말
2. 사건 인식 비교를 위한 이론적 근거와 분석 대상
2.1 달성 사건의 사건구조와 분석 기준
2.2 대응 달성동사의 분석 범위와 분석 항목
3. 달성동사의 표현 범위에 대한 한·중 비교
3.1 지속시간 표현에 나타난 달성동사의 표현 범위
3.2 반복 표현에 나타난 달성동사의 표현 범위
3.3 결과보어·보조동사 구성에 나타난 달성동사의 표현 범위
4. 결과부정을 통한 달성동사의 표현 범위 검증
5장. 맺음말
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저자

• 이승희 [ Seunghee Lee | 가천대학교 ]

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발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  인문언어 [LINGUA HUMANITATIS]

• 간기

  반년간

• pISSN

  1598-2130

• 수록기간

  2000~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 705 DDC 405