A cognitive account of the Korean morpheme –se  

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Strauss, Susan

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 25 no. 4 (2003), page 375-392.
Topik: Groundedness continuum; Inclusiveness; Korean; realis/irrealis
Fulltext: 25_04_Strauss.pdf (300.6KB)

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Traditional treatments of Modern Korean consider the morpheme -se as strictly a clause combining element,similar in function to the coordinating conjunction ‘and’ and the adverbial conjunctives ‘and then’ or ‘because’ in English. However,the morpheme also appears in a number of postpositional opposition pairs such as ey ‘to’ and eyse ‘from,’ myen ‘if/when’ and myense ‘while,at the same time,’ ulo ‘toward’ and ulose ‘as,in the capacity of.’ And it is here that traditionalists do not recognize this instance of -se as meaningful in and of itself. That is,traditional views consider such opposition pairs as ey ‘to’ and eyse ‘from’ as simply opposite notions of goal and source,respectively,with the second member constituting a full ‘chunk,’ not distinctly analyzable into two separate morphemes, i.e., ey+se. This paper proposes a unified analysis of -se,both as a clausal connector as well as a bound morpheme in postpositional opposition pairs. All instances of -se will be analyzed as one and the same signal,the basic meaning of which is ‘‘groundedness.’’ Specifically, we will demonstrate that -se with its meaning of ‘groundedness,’ functions to establish inclusiveness and thus to link entities to each other,to link entities to locations and/or events, and to link events to other events. Through this signal–meaning–function approach,it will be shown throughout this paper that the addition of -se,by virtue of its meaning of groundedness,serves to transfer entities and events from the domain of IRREALIS to the domain of REALIS. As such,far from being a non-existent morpheme beyond its clause-combining function,it will be shown that -se actually carries powerful semantic meaning.

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