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Kang, Seokhan. 2013. The Effect of the Background Language on L2 Suprasegmental Acquisition. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 38-1, 1-26. This study investigated how the different L1 adult groups with different levels of proficiency levels acquire the L2 suprasegmentals. Sixty-four subjects in seven groups – twenty-eight native English learners of Korean with three different leveled groups, twenty-six native Japanese learners of Korean with three different leveled groups, and ten native Korean speakers (as a control group) – took part in the experiment. After L2 subjects’ speech was assessed by ten native Korean listeners, acoustic measurement of L2 speaking was analyzed. The results show that both effects of L1 background language and L2 proficiency levels influence differently in the acquisition of the L2 suprasegmentals. More specifically, the effect of L1 background language impacts on the quality of L2 acquisition more strongly in the early stage; Japanese learners produced Korean prosody more fluently in the beginning level of the proficiency. However, L1 effect diminished in the later stage of L2 experience. The mitigation of L1 effect results from the cue asymmetry which the typological proximity triggers. (Seoul National University)

Kwak, Eun-Joo. 2013. Context-dependent Countability in Korean. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 38-1, 27-51. The countability of nonhuman nouns is problematic in Korean because they behave like either count or mass nouns depending on structures. To account for the mixed properties of nonhuman nouns, this analysis resorts to the context-dependent domain of Chierchia (2010) and the restriction of Interpretive Economy suggested by Kennedy (2007). It is proposed that nonhuman nouns are lexically mass and behave like count nouns only when sentences involve distributivity or quantification over atoms. The context-dependency of a typeshifting function accounts for different behaviors between nonhuman and mass nouns and graded judgments of native speakers. (Sejong University)

Kwon, Iksoo. 2013. The Semantics of the Korean Sentence-Final Suffix -Ney Revisited: Response to Chung (2012). Korean Journal of Linguistics, 38-1, 53-66. This squib aims to pose a different stance toward the controversy over the grammatical identity of the Korean sentence-terminal suffix -ney discussed in previous research. This paper, particularly, revisits Chung's (2012) research on -ney, which claims that it is neither a firsthand evidential marker nor an epistemic marker, but that it functions more like a mirativity marker with an extra function of objectifying the proposition in question. I agree with Chung's argument that -ney's grammatical identity is not a firsthand evidential marker because the marker is freely used with other types of evidential semantics. This paper argues, however, that -ney is a strongly-positive epistemic modal marker for the following reasons: (1) -ney necessarily indicates that the speaker asserts the truth of the focal proposition with a strong belief of the truth; (2) it is not clear how her functional category of spatial deictic tense differs from the functional category of evidentiality and how it interacts with other tense, aspect, and modal categories in the verbal complex in Korean. (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)

Kim, Kyoung-Hark. 2013. On the Complementarity of Manner and Result Verbs and the Verb 'cut'. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 38-1, 67-86. This paper deals with the complementarity of manner and result verbs and the problem case of the verb 'cut'. In section 2, I review Fillmore(1970)'s and Levin(1993)'s argument alternations and classicfication of manner and result verbs. Then some problems and disadvantages of their classicfication are pointed out. In section 3, I will discuss Levin and Rappaport Hovav(2010)'s complementarity of manner and result verbs and the explanation of the verb 'cut‘. Then some problems and disadvantages of their explanation are pointed out. In section 4, I discuss Levin and Rappaport Hovav(2008)'s event structures of manner and result verbs, and Pustejovsky's(1995) Generative Lexicon Theory and underspecification principle. Then I modify the underspecification principle and the event structure of the verb 'cut'. Finally I argue that the modified principle and the event structure of the verb 'cut' have many advantages. (The University of Suwon)

Kim, Yong-Myeong. 2013. Where Does Syntax Meet Morphology?: IP. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 38-1, 87-114. The purpose of this paper is to explore a research question, where does syntax interact with morphology in interlanguage (IL) developments? For an answer to this question, this study proposes an IP-related Developmental Sequence (IDS) which constitutes an implicational scale of Single IP—Double IP—Multiple IP Stage. Each stage of the IDS incorporates two different dimensions of sequential developments according to the Modular Approach (Ellis, 1994; Gregg, 1996; White, 1987). The one is an IP-related Syntactic Developmental Sequence (ISDS), and the other is an IP-related Morphological Developmental Sequence (IMDS). Each Sequence follows an implicational scale of Underspecified IP→(ModP→AuxP*)→TP→AgrP→ForP stage, on each stage of which each relevant syntactic and morphological mechanism operates by incorporating the locality condition (LC) and the uniqueness condition (UC) with the Split-IP hypothesis and the Split-AuxP hypothesis. From the corollary of this, an answer to our research question can be obtained; IP. That is, syntax on the ISDS interacts with morphology on the IMDS, and hence syntactic IL developments along with the ISDS entail morphological IL developments along with the IMDS. Thus, the ISDS and the IMDS hinge on and interact with each other under the IDS. (Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation)

Kim, Haeyeon. 2013. A Comparative Study of the Meanings and Uses of Weight-Denoting Words Kapyepta 'Light' vs. Mwukepta 'Heavy' in a Korean Written Corpus. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 38-1, 115-140. This research attempts to characterize two opposite adjectives kapyepta 'light' vs. mwukepta 'heavy' through an examination of a Korean written corpus. This study first examines the frequency of these two adjectives in the database, showing that kapyepta is more frequently used than mwukepta in the database. Second, it examines the frequency of grammatical functions of kapyepta vs. mwukepta, showing that about half of the kapyepta tokens take the adverbial form, although they are used both attributively and predicatively. Third, this study explores co-occurrence relations and collocation patterns of the two adjectives, showing that most of the kapyepta tokens are used to modify or predicate nouns which denote abstract notions, actions/activities, and attitudes, while mwukepta co-occurs mostly with nouns of concrete objects, actions/activities, and abstract entities. Fourth, this work explores semantic properties of kapyepta vs. mwukepta based on the examination of semantic categories of co-occurring nouns. This study also shows that idiomatic expressions can be explained in terms of conceptual metaphor theory. Finally, this research suggests that a corpus-based analysis is a useful tool in characterizing uses and meanings of many closely related words in Korean. (Chung-Ang University)

Shin, Seung-Hoon. 2013. Interrelationship between Mother Tongue, Universal Linguistic Knowledges and Linguistic Experience in Speech Perception: Focusing on English Segments and Syllable Contact Violations. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 38-1, 141-172. Patterns of sound perceptions have long been known to exhibit properties of the native language, linguistic experience and universal linguistic knowledge. The goal of this research is to examine how Korean and Chinese listeners differently perceive unfamiliar segments and illicit consonant clusters over a syllable boundary and to see what factor most influences their perceptions and how they interact. For the goals, selected were two groups of Koreans who took a phonetics/phonology course. They took pre- and posttest, and the results were analyzed with respect to the interrelationship and were also compared with those of Chinese. With regard to perceptions of the individual segments by Korean listeners, perception of fricatives recorded lowest, which means the mother tongue plays an important role. At the same time, given that the class taught in English shows a sensible improvement, we contend that language experience also plays a vital role. When a segment sequence satisfies both phonology of the mother tongue and the universal knowledge, the perception rates marked highest, while a segment sequence violates both of them, the perception rates marked lowest. Most importantly, when the universal knowledge and mother tongue conflict, the mother tongue plays a more important role than the universal knowledge. (Yeungnam University)

An, Duk-Ho. 2013. An Elaboration of An’s (2012b) Analysis of MAP and NPE: A Reply to Lee (2012). Korean Journal of Linguistics, 38-1, 173-196. In An (2012b), I examine a construction in Korean which superficially resembles NP-ellipsis, a phenomenon which is usually assumed to be unavailable in the language. I argue there that on closer scrutiny, the phenomenon in question shows properties not typical of NP-ellipsis and, thus, should be analyzed differently. In other words, the construction should not be taken as evidence for the existence of NP-ellipsis in Korean. In his recent critique of the discussion in An (2012b), Lee (2012) takes issue with some particular details of the analysis proposed there. In response to this, I discuss in this paper the issues Lee raises and show that they are not genuine problems. Crucially, the main point of the discussion in An (2012b) stands the same—that is, the construction in question may not be regarded as evidence for the existence of NPE in Korean. (Konkuk University)

Duval, Marc. 2013. Metonymy Avoidance in Korean. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 38-1, 197-225. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of metonymic shortcuts in Korean and show that Korean displays a tendency, compared to languages such as English or French, to avoid metonymic extensions in the lexicon. This can be seen in the relative scarcity of typical examples of metonymies, such as material-to-product or place-to-activity meaning extensions, as well as in the absence of more marginal phenomena, such as antonomasia, a particular form of metonymy (proper name-to-object). Some morphological and grammatical features of the Korean language will be suggested that can explain this state of affairs. (Seoul National University)