Affiliation:
1. University of Minnesota Duluth
2. SOAS, University of London
Abstract
Abstract
This article aims to develop a Cognitive Grammar (CG) analysis of three grammatical constructions in Korean, all
of which employ the bound noun kes. The data under examination includes the Factive, Internally Headed Relative
Clause (IHRC), and Cleft constructions. We propose a uniform treatment of the three types of kes by arguing that
it denotes a schematic noun that profiles a thing (noun) and has some role in the process of the adnominal
clause. Different interpretations of these constructions arise due to different types of conceptualizations involved in each
instance. In so doing, we point out that previous proposals that deal with kes are neither general enough to
capture the commonalities observed in all three constructions nor can account for the new observations we present.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Developmental and Educational Psychology,Language and Linguistics