Young-Soon Kim. 2001. Discourse Functional Interpretation of the Word Order Variation. Studies Modern Grammar 24, 137-159. In many linguistic studies there has been a dichotomy between formal and functional approaches. This paper will attempt to connect the two approaches because linguistic expressions always simultaneously have formal grammatical properties and functional pragmatic properties. In order to do it, this study explains the concept of the discourse-grammar, demonstrates the discourse-grammar relationship of Korean, German, and English, and deals with the motivation of word order variation in English. There are expressions of discourse functions in English, for example, the left attachment and the right attachment. The former has the interpretation of marked topicalization and the latter has the effect of creating a new focus of statement. The outline of results in this study is as follows: Korean and German are pragmatical languages, which make use of grammatical means to cope with discourse-functional requirements in quite a different way from English.

• 김영순 | Young Soon Kim