The Institute for Korean Studies presents:
"Durative Constructions in Korean, Chinese and English from a Typological Perspective"
Hyo Sang Lee
Indiana University Bloomington
Abstract: All languages have durative constructions that typically represent the Progressive and the resultative meaning. In this talk, it will be demonstrated that the meanings represented by the comparable durative constructions in Korean, Chinese, and English can be best characterized as dynamic and static duratives. The constructions that are dealt with are: -ko iss- and -ŏ iss- in Korean, zai and zhe in Chinese, and ‘be+present participle’ and ‘be+past participle’ in English. It will be illustrated that the range of meanings represented by these durative constructions in the three languages manifest a continuum in the dynamic-static scale, as the dynamic durative meaning is more extended in English, while the static durative meaning is more extended in Chinese, and Korean exhibits an intermediate stage.
Hyo Sang Lee is an Associate Professor of Korean language and linguistics in EALC at Indiana University. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from UCLA in 1991. His research areas are discourse-pragmatic approach to grammar (usage-based grammar), grammaticalization, language change and synchronic variation, linguistic typology, and Korean as a foreign/second language pedagogy. His representative publications in linguistics include: A discourse account of the Korean accusative marker (co-authored), Studies in Language, 1989; Cognitive constraints on expressing newly perceived information: With reference to epistemic modal suffixes in Korean, Cognitive Linguistics, 1993; A discourse-pragmatic analysis of the Committal ci in Korean: a synthetic approach to the form-meaning relation, Journal of Pragmatics, 1999. His publications in Korean language education include Integrated Korean language textbooks (co-authored) in Beginning (2000), Intermediate (2001), and High Advanced (2005) level and a journal article Teaching Listener Responses to KFL Students (co-authored), Korean Language in America, 2015.
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This event is supported by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.
