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The purpose of this study is to analyze the distribution and role of Korean Negative Polarity Item (NPI), amwuto(anyone) in SJ-RIKS corpus and seek for typical patterns of its syntactic structure. To identify part of speech of amwuto, the collected data is sorted out according to its part of speech. In the next section, in order to find double subject, collocation search of topic marker un/nun, i/ka and amwu is conducted. This search condition is limited to adjacent collocation. In addition to that, special cases that amwuto occurs in the Neg-raising construction were also collected and investigated. At the end, the negation types that amwuto prefers are shown. As a result syntactic patterns of amwuto constructions are found. amwuto is frequently used with adjective eps(not exist) and amwuto is preferred to be used as a subject of a sentence. Within the clause where amwuto used, scrambling of subject and object is acceptable but it is not found in the corpus It is also found that 15% of amwuto in the corpus is used with extra NP and they have several common characteristics as follows. amwuto is found to be used with extra NP when the preceding noun has semantic feature [+human] such as saram(human), saram(honorific form of saram), pun(sino-Korean word of saram). 85% of the constructions of amwuto with extra NP occurs with constituent negation eps(not exist). There is typical pattern like [Relative Clause + saram + -un/-i amwuto + eps-ta] where amwuto is used with extra NP. At the end, the types of negations which give license to NPI amwuto are collected. As a result, there are sharp contrasts between long and short negations and between explicit and implicit negations.

This experimental syntax study examines Yeo’s (2006, 2011) claims about –key/-tolok alternation of clausal and non-clausal resultatives in Korean. Yeo (2006) argues that clausal resultatives license–tolok whereas non-clausal resultatives license -key, but not vice versa. These claims were tested, employing OpenSesame and a 5-point Likert scale task. The t-test and κ-test results showed that non-clausal resultatives agreement (i.e., convergence rate) between the linguist’s and 44 naïve speakers’ judgments was 100% and clausal resultatives agreement between the two types of acceptability judgments was just 57%. These new empirical data are in line with Yeo’s (2006) claims for non-clausal resultatives, but not for clausal resultatives. Furthermore, this paper provides a pattern analysis, a detailed analysis of divergence types between the two types of judgments for all pairs tested. We also discuss contributions of experimental syntax studies to the advancement of syntactic theory.

This research focused on developing text information that integrates the reading and writing part of the Korean language education, as well as, finding ways to establish materials that can be utilized in the future. To gather more information, we re-examined the lists of educational text type that were presented in previously existing researches. Also, we further emphasize the needs to establish and provide more information, based on the survey on Korean education, where experienced Korean language instructors responded strongly to needing more educational information. To provide the outline that is required in the program that uses informational technology, we used the method that combined both inductive and deductive viewpoints, taking the previous genre information theory and the result of Corpus analysis into consideration. We inputted an “editorial” genre to supply examples to the information outline that was provided by the research. Using Korean educational standpoint to evaluate the previous research outcomes on Korean language text, and to restructure and make utilization plans, puts significance on this research.

The purpose of this study is to provide actual instances of Korean internally-headed relative clauses and to examine the characteristics of them. To achieve these goals, we analyzed the corpus data from Korean speakers consisting of 200 audio transcription files. The results of the analysis revealed that internally-headed relative clauses are actually used in Korean. The results of the analysis also revealed that only a subject and an object can be relativized in internally-headed relative clauses. In addition, The results showed that only a concrete noun can be allowed as head noun. The findings of the study suggest that there exist internally-headed relative clauses in Korean, but there are some syntactic and semantic-pragmatic restrictions on the use of them.