On alternative constructions for the pronoun-retention strategy in Korean: A corpus and translation-based analysis

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Linguistic Research Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI:10.17250/KHISLI.37.2.202006.003

Jieun Lee, Jonathon Lookadoo

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Abstract

This study explores how Korean deals with restrictions in relative clause (RC) formation. Keenan and Comrie’s (1977) judgment that Korean is a language that uses the pronoun-retention strategy has had an enduring impact on later studies. However, it is highly doubtful that the pronoun-retention strategy is used in everyday situations, since in most cases an RC with a resumptive pronoun (RP) sounds unnatural in Korean. This observation suggests that there may be an alternative way to convey the function of an RC formed on a genitive NP (genitive RC). This suggestion should be tested with naturally occurring data. In this paper, therefore, genitive RCs with an RP (GRP) are investigated in the contemporary Korean corpus to discover to what extent they are in use. Simultaneously, a Korean-English parallel corpus and data from the Bible are examined to observe how English genitive RCs are expressed in their Korean counterparts. The findings show that GRPs are rarely used in Korean. Rather, Korean tends to paraphrase the genitive RC into a non-RC or a non-genitive RC to transfer the meaning of a genitive RC.

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韩语代词保留策略的替代结构:基于语料库和翻译的分析

本研究探讨韩国语如何处理关系从句的构成限制。Keenan和Comrie(1977)关于韩语是一种使用代词保留策略的语言的判断对后来的研究产生了持久的影响。然而，代词保留策略在日常生活中是否使用值得怀疑，因为在大多数情况下，带有恢复代词(RP)的RC在韩语中听起来很不自然。这一观察结果表明，可能有一种替代的方式来传达在属格NP上形成的RC的功能(属格RC)。这个建议应该用自然发生的数据进行测试。因此，本文对现代韩语语料库中带有RP的属格RCs (GRP)进行了研究，以了解它们的使用程度。同时，我们还研究了韩英平行语料库和圣经数据，以观察英语属格rc在韩语中是如何表达的。结果显示，在韩国语中很少使用grp。相反，韩国人倾向于将属格RC解释为非属格RC或非属格RC以转移属格RC的意义。

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