• 한국언어정보학회지:언어와정보
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.103-122
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• 2014

In a so-called cleft (or, pseudocleft), the kes-phrase seems to refer to a person, even though kes is generally incompatible with human beings. In this paper, I claim that in a cleft, the kes-phrase can refer to a concept, and that a concept of human beings is not a person. I give some pieces of evidence for this claim. In a cleft, the kes-phrase cannot be pluralized only when it is supposed to denote a human being. Moreover, in such a case, the NP before the copula cannot be interpreted as the meaning of a predicate. Furthermore, in a cleft two kes-phrases are not conjoined with (k)wa only when they seem to denote human beings. All the observations can be explained by the claim that the kes-phrase denotes a concept in such cases. A concept cannot be used as a predicate, pluralized, or conjoined to refer to objects that are subsumed under a concept. When the kes-phrase denotes a concept, the cleft sentence is an identity statement.

• 한국언어정보학회지:언어와정보
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.111-125
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• 2016

In this paper I argue that the subject in a Korean kes-cleft construction denotes the discourse referent that stands for the entity that satisfies the description of the cleft clause. This denotation thereby can be understood as a meta-linguistic referent which refers to the linguistic expression for a presupposed entity. In support of this claim, it is shown an anaphoric expression kekes also can be analyzed as a meta-linguistic referent. This analysis can explain why the subject and the predicate of a kes-cleft in Korean allow animacy crash.

• 한국정보과학회 언어공학연구회:학술대회논문집(한글 및 한국어 정보처리)
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• 한국정보과학회언어공학연구회 2008년도 제20회 한글 및 한국어 정보처리 학술대회
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• pp.48-52
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• 2008

The expression KES, one of the most commonly used words in the Korean language, has various usages. This expression is also used to express English-like cleft constructions. It appears to provide at two different types of cleft constructions: predicational and identificational. The paper tries to provide a constraint-based analysis of these two types of Korean cleft constructions and tries to implement the analysis in the LKB system to check its feasibility. In particular, the paper shows how a typed feature structure grammar, couched upon HPSG, can provide a robust basis for parsing Korean cleft constructions.

• 인지과학
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.1-28
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• 2009

한국어 표현 '것'은 실제 언어사용에서도 가장 빈번히 사용되며, 다양한 문법적 기능을 가지고 있다. 영어의 분열문에 상응하는 기능으로도 사용되는 '것'은, 서술(predicational), 동일(identificational), 그리고 사건(eventual) 문열문을 도입할 수 있다. 본 논문은 이러한 '것'을 포함한 세 가지 분열구문에 대한 제약기반 분석을 제공하고, 이를 전산언어학적으로 구현한 결과를 제공한다. 유형화된(typed) 자질구조를 중요한 매개로 사용하는 제약기반 분석 방법은 분열구문에 대한 적절한 통사적, 의미적 처리(parsing) 결과를 제공한다.

• 한국언어정보학회지:언어와정보
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.85-103
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• 2008

Like English, Korean employs several complicated types of cleft constructions. This paper deals with two main types of Korean cleft constructions: predicational and identificational. It first reviews the formal properties of these two types and then provides a constraint-based analysis that can be computationally implemented. In particular, the paper assumes two types of noun KES (one as a common noun and the other as a bound noun) and treats the argument-gapped cleft clause similar to relative clauses while treating the adjunct-gapped cleft clause as a noun-complement construction. The paper further shows that the cleft constructions are closely linked to the copula constructions, sharing many common properties while having their own constructional constraints.

• 한국언어정보학회지:언어와정보
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.109-125
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• 2015

In this study, I attempt to show two points about Korean sluicing. First, the semantic source of the null subject of the copula phrase in Korean sluicing is a null pronoun. This null subject pronoun may refer to either the antecedent indefinite individual or the antecedent event of the preceding clause. Second, depending on the presence/absence of postpositions in the remant wh-phrase, sluicing constructions are classified into two different semantic types: i) an equative clause and ii) a predicational clause.