Korean Tense and Aspect in Narrative Discourse, by EunHee Lee
Korean Tense and aspect in Narrative Discourse, by EunHee Lee (ISBN-10 1872843433 / ISBN-13 978187284343) is number six in Saffron Korean Linguistics Series. View digital version. Korean Tense and aspect in Narrative Discourse argues for a discourse-based treatment of the temporal and aspectual categories in Korean through the quantitative analysis of corpus data, providing a systematic semantic analysis of those categories using a...
Grammaticalization in Korean: The Evolution of the Existential Verb
This is the first book on Korean grammaticalization written in English. About Grammaticalization in Korean: The Evolution of the Existential Verb: Cross-linguistically, verbs denoting existence have been one of the most fertile sources for the development of grammatical markers (eg, English ‘be’). In the history of the Korean language as well, the verb is(i)- (the old form of iss-) has participated in the emergence of eleven different...