KoreanSpoken by nearly 70 million people not only within the Korean Peninsula but also in five continents, Korean is one of a dozen major languages of the world. Yet outside Korea it is not as much studied as it should be, nor has it acquired commensurate international recognition. With its difficult sound system, rich word formation patterns, and complex sentence structures, Korean is one of the most challenging to learn as a foreign language, yet there is little that is written in English about Korean. This book eminently fills this gap. The author presents Korean in a lucid and readable manner covering topics from scripts to sounds, from words to sentences, and from discourse to text analysis. It is therefore both comprehensive and concise. It avoids unnecessary details but includes all essential subjects, and describes them in a well-organized theory-free prose. This book should be a handy reference for both teachers and students of Korean, especially those abroad. |
Contents
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3 Words | 19 |
4 Word Classes | 31 |
5 Sentences | 69 |
6 Extended Sentences | 135 |
7 Discourse | 175 |
Appendix | 213 |
Notes | 227 |
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acwu adjectives adnominal adnoun clause ADNZ Adverb clauses adverbial particle ADVZ anaphoric auxiliary be-SE bound noun cey-ka chayk ciman classified complement conjunctive consonant contrast coordination copula discourse ditransitive English first five formal grammatical Hanca Hankul hata honorific Hwang Huy Hyen I-TOP indefinite indirect inflectional interrogative intransitive intransitive verbs issta keyss Korean grammar kuliko lexical loves manhi marker Mia-eykey Mia-ka Mia-lul Mia-nun modifiers morpheme myen Na-nun Nay-ka Nayil negation negative Nominal Subordinators North Korea noun phrase Nwuka nwun-i object palam-i passive past tense perfective aspect person Pi-ka pota predicate prefix pronoun propositive rain reference reflexive semantic roles sentence enders sentence type Seoul SK words sleep speaker speech act speech level subclasses subject complement suffix syntactic tag question tomorrow topic topic-focus articulation transitive Verbal Subordinators verbs vowel word classes wuli Wuli-nun Yong Yong-i Yuna zero anaphor