This paper attempts to review the validity of metrical evidence for secondary stress in OE (Old English). Initiated by Huguenin (1901), the tradition of reconstructing secondary stress on the basis of meter builds on the isomorphy between language and meter. Even though the prosodic reconstruction from meter has proven to be fairly useful, there are certain properties to be carefully considered in order to argue for the existence of secondary stress in OE. It is argued that verse types, not alliteration, cannot be a reliable source for the reconstruction of secondary stress. Due to the differences with regard to fundamental assumptions on OE meter, the predictions on the placement of secondary stress are not consistent. In addition, most OE metrical systems are not free of inherent circularity between verse types and secondary stress. It is also demonstrated that given the distinct nature of stress assignment, secondary stress in compounds should be distinguished from that in noncompound words. Moreover OE secondary stress cannot be claimed to exist without the precise definition between compounds and noncompound words being properly reflected in the reconstruction process.
This article presents a lexical-constructional analysis of the get-passive in English (e.g. Ed got fired). Drawing on standard arguments and evidence, it is argued that the passive is a family of constructions, from idiomatic through two productive types, which are either causative or non-causative. The article proposes an analysis of those three constructions as lexical items. While the idiomatic type is fully listed in the lexicon with a single meaning, the two productive types are templates that are stored in the component with passive get and a constructional meaning. The proposed analysis also has some advantages over previous studies.
Further to Lee (2008) where Aspect is proposed to be located in VPlayers in Korean, this paper considers a wider range of data from the area of verb copying from Korean to consolidate the proposal. Parallel Chinese examples of the same verb copying construction are also considered to corroborate the current position. From a theoretical perspective, the results obtained surprisingly lead to the underlying head-initial structure in Korean as well. Thus Kaynean (1994) universal Spec-head-complement order hypothesis is supported, and head-parameter is rendered to fall out of the Universal Grammar, as recent Minimalist Program claims.
This study examines the production of English word-final codas by Korean speakers. First, we investigate how Korean learners phonetically realize English word final codas. The second question explores what factors exert an influence on production type. Results show that Korean speakers' production most favors the released type and then prefers the release and vowel epenthesis type and the unreleased type. This finding indicates that Korean learners are making progress toward targetlike production while retaining the transfer from Korean syllable structures. Finally, their production type significantly differs by the number of codas, grammatical condition, preceding vowel, and following linguistic environment.
The purpose of this paper is to reaffirm that the null object in Korean should be identified as empty DP not as pro. The foci in this discussion turn to whether the null object in Korean has sloppy identity reading or not and whether it has only wide scope or not. According to the pro analysis, the null object has only the sloppy identity reading and wide scope. However, despite the pro analysis' validity, we argue that the null object in Korean can still have the sloppy identity reading and narrow scope as well as the strict identity reading and wide scope.
In this paper, mainly based on the data with the constituent XP-man-i ('XP-only-F'), I discuss some distributional and functional properties of the markers -ka in Korean to suggest that the marker -ka that is stacked on the dative marker -eykey ('to') or on particles like -man ('only') (which is generally called stacked -ka) is not a case marker, but a focus marker with a special function, and that unstacked -ka may also function as a focus marker in certain contexts. I also discuss further data with the marker -lul to suggest the following: First, stacked -lul is a focus marker and unstacked -lul may function as a focus marker in certain contexts, like unstacked -ka. Second, there are two types of focus markers, which differ in their morphological realization patterns. Based on the discussions, I conclude that case duplication or case stacking is not allowed in Korean.
This paper explores the absence or presence of CP ellipsis in Japanese and Korean. Saito (2007) argues that in Japanese and Korean, arguments such as DPs and CPs can undergo ellipsis unlike in English since agreement is optional in these languages. He further puts forward an LF copying analysis of argument ellipsis. A couple of puzzles, however, need to be resolved. First, no extraction out of CP ellipsis should be explained. Second, the fact that CP ellipsis is sensitive to selection of matrix verb should be explained. We suggest that apparent DP and CP ellipsis in Korean are all instances of a null pronoun, the so-called pro. We reanalyze the apparent instances of DP and CP ellipsis discussed in Saito (2007), and propose that they indeed involve deep anaphora pro but not surface anaphora ellipsis.
The purpose of this paper is to give a pragmatic and sociocultural description of the discourse particle (DP) yey 'yes' in Korean. From a sociocultural perspective, a variety of discourse functions of yey are analyzed as a product of high-context communication strategies, which put interactional relationships before information delivery. For a pragmatic analysis, following Lee(1996, 1997, 1999, 2008), I assume that the DP yey has one basic sense of the speaker's positive attitude, and demonstrate that all the pragmatic uses of the DP can be inferred from the basic sense in accordance with the Gricean Cooperative Principle; all the pragmatic uses are broadly categorized into 2 groups, informative functions and politeness function.
Syntactic priming effect is defined as a tendency that speakers are more likely to use the syntactic structure in the case that the same structure was used in a preceding sentence compared to the case in which a different syntactic structure was used in a preceding sentence. The purpose of the study is to investigate the difference of the syntactic persistence between young and adult EFL learners. Also, the present study investigated the implicit learning effect. Participants consist of three groups: elementary school students, middle school students, and university students. For the implicit learning effects, each participant took part in the experiment three times with an interval with ten days. As a result, the salient priming effects and implicit learning effects were observed in university students. Weak effects were shown for middle school students and the weakest effects for the elementary school students. Especially, the priming effects on passive and double object dative structure were not observed for the elementary school students, weak for the middle school students, and strong for the university students. The results imply that young EFL learners who are in lack of cognitive prerequisite on L2 linguistic forms are limited to both the priming effects and implicit learning effects. Pedagogically, the young learners who are in lack of cognitive prerequisite knowledge require more explicit instruction for L2 grammar.
In an attempt to connect English material development and grammar teaching for the purpose of attaining communicative competence, this study looks at existential there constructions from the perspective of theoretical background and practical applications. To fulfill the pedagogical needs of the ‘There-constructions’, theoretical framework established to the present is examined and the frequency of authentic use is investigated on the ground of several corpora including non-native learner corpus. In addition, a writing task was given to Korean learners of English who were asked to describe pictures eliciting existential there related sentences and, as a result, the learners’ errors have been identified. Middle school English textbooks are, also, analyzed in light of a material evaluation checklist as a textbook, one of the main resources in EFL context, could reveal to what extent the learners are exposed to the corresponding grammar items. The study, eventually, draws some pedagogical implications and suggestions by presenting a communicative grammar teaching model as well as a material development guide to ‘There-constructions’ teaching.
The appropriate use of hedged expressions is particularly a problematic feature of non-native writers' English academic writings. This study analyses the features of hedging in NNS and NS academic essays by using two different corpora from Korean masters' students and from English native speakers in the UK. This corpus-based study focuses on the types and frequencies of epistemic devices, examining the salient features of hedging used in the Korean L2 writings. The results from both frequency and contextual analysis indicate that they rely heavily on using modal verbs and other certainty markers of adverbs, and this led to stronger and direct statements. Along with their serious confusion with impersonalized or personalized forms in relation to the usage of lexical verbs, they showed a strong preference for giving personal involvement, which occurred in specific patterns of personalized devices in conversational hedges. These patterns can be partly explained by the cultural transfer from L1 to L2 as well as lack of linguistic knowledge across different genres. The findings thus can contribute to giving some pedagogical implications for teaching alternative strategies to raise both culture and genre-specific awareness in the areas of second language pragmatics.
The primary objective of this study was to investigate English midterm test items through the application of the Rasch measurement modeling. The teacher-constructed 21 multiple choice test items to which 190 subjects responded as their midterm summative test were submitted to Winsteps 7, a Rasch measurement model program. The Rasch analysis results showed six out of 21 items misfitted the model. The qualitative analysis of those six items revealed that most of those items had more than two correct answers. The other analysis of the equivalency between item difficulties and subjects’ abilities indicated that most items matched only with mid-level ability groups of subjects, lacking items for both upper and lower levels of subjects. It was also found that items related to text organization were among the easiest items, giving support for the efficacy of text-based instruction. The findings of this study also implied that more training of constructing and banking items may be necessary for inservice English teachers, who should take the responsibilities for introducing positive washback effects to their students.