Language and Information (한국언어정보학회지:언어와정보)
- Volume 13 Issue 2
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- Pages.29-45
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- 2009
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- 1226-7430(pISSN)
On the Structure of Korean Comparative Constructions: A Constraint-based Approach
- Kim, Jong-Bok (Kyung-Hee University and SOAS) ;
- Sells, Peter (Kyung-Hee University and SOAS)
- Published : 2009.12.31
Abstract
Every language employs its own morphological and syntactic ways of expressing gradable concepts and making comparison between properties of two objects. Korean uses the adverb te 'more' and the post-position pota 'than' to express such relations objects, but displays quite different grammatical properties from a language like English. This paper shows how a constraint-based grammar, HPSG, can provide a robust basis for the grammatical analysis of Korean comparative constructions.