Word2Vec을 활용한 한국어 정도부사의 의미 분석에 대한 연구

강아름 언어과학회 2023 언어과학연구 Vol.- No.106

This study explores the semantic meanings of the most frequently used degree adverbs in the construction of a Korean dialogue corpus from 2020 and 2021, employing word embedding through Word2Vec. The outcomes reveal valuable insights: Firstly, the vector similarity analysis unveils intimate associations spanning diverse word classes. Secondly, when considering adjectives, a strong correlation emerges between evaluative adjectives and positive semantic prosody, while emotional adjectives display a contrasting negative trend. Thirdly, particularly notable are adverbs, showing almost perfect semantic similarity patterns between the 2020 and 2021 corpora. The pivotal contribution of this study lies in broadening the methodological landscape for the analysis of degree adverbs.

신상품 개발과정에서 공급업체 R&D 역량과 내부통합이 공급사슬 외부통합에 미치는 영향

강아름,오중산 한국경영학회 2010 한국경영학회 통합학술발표논문집 Vol.2010 No.08

미래 시제와 인식 양태의 통합적 분석: ‘(으)ㄹ 것이’

강아름 한국생성문법학회 2022 생성문법연구 Vol.32 No.4

The goal of the current paper is to investigate a unified analysis of integrated meaning of future prediction and epistemic modality in Korean. In particular, we focus on the case of the periphrastic construction (u)l-kes-i ‘will/must’. Importantly, when the past tense morpheme ess/ass combines with (u)l-kes-i, only the epistemic reading arises. Given the set of empirical data, we address the following questions: First, how are the future prediction meaning and the epistemic modal meaning related each other? Second, what is the licensing condition of (u)l-kes-i? For the answers to the questions, we suggest the following: First, the default meaning of (u)l-kes-i is that of epistemic modality. Second, by adding to the specific prospective aspect operator, we can get the future prediction reading and solve the puzzle on the case of past tense morpheme. The theoretical implication of current work is that from the crosslinguistic view, Korean data can suggest an extended spectrum of the conceptual relation between the future prediction and the epistemic modal in a unified way.

Unexpectedness Effect: The Emphatic Determiner with Gradable NPs in Korean

강아름 한국현대언어학회 2018 언어연구 Vol.33 No.4

The main goal of this paper is to investigate the pragmatic contributions of Korean GU. The data deals mainly with the cases where GU receiving high prosodic prominences co-occurs with gradable NPs, and the utterance marked by GU expresses speaker’s strong surprise. Thus far, many theories about the meaning of gu have centered on the analysis of its function as being non-emphatic (i.e., demonstrative gu ‘that’ and/or definite gu ‘the’). While it has sometimes been recognized that the interpretation of GU is emphatic occurring in an unexpected context, the exact nature of the semantico-pragmatic meaning has not been properly understood. In the present article, I propose a novel function of the emphatic GU by suggesting that the meaning of the emphatic GU is distinct from the non-emphatic gu: when GU co-occurs with noun phrases modified by adjectives, it functions as an emphatic marker and raises the unexpectedness effect. In this vein, GU plays a role as a scalar intensifier that contributes scalar implicature associated with the least likely end on the likelihood scale. Since the proposition with a low likelihood was out of the subject’s expectation, the speaker’s strong surprise arises. The implication of my findings is that the emphatic GU needs to be considered as a novel device for the focus marker implicating mirativity which intensifies speaker’s strong surprise at the low likelihood.

뇌졸중으로 유발된 전체성 실어증 환자에 대한 두침치료 치험 2례

강아름,우지명,이미림,김수빈,조기호,문상관,정우상,Kang, Ah-reum,Woo, Ji-myung,Lee, Mi-rim,Kim, Su-bin,Cho, Ki-ho,Moon, Sang-kwan,Jung, Woo-sang 대한한방내과학회 2016 大韓韓方內科學會誌 Vol.37 No.2

Objectives: This study presents two cases of patients with post-stroke global aphasia who were treated with scalp acupuncture with electrical stimulation.Method: The two patients were treated by scalp acupuncture with electrical stimulation six times a week. The degree of aphasia was measured via the Korean version of the western aphasia battery (K-WAB).Results: After treatment, aphasia was improved in both cases (autism-spectrum quotient [AQ] scores increased from 13.7 to 37.1 and from 4.1 to 18.4 in the two patients).Conclusion: Based on the results of these two cases, scalp acupuncture could be effective in treating post-stroke global aphasia.

한국어 민명사의 한정적 해석: 당나귀 구문을 중심으로

강아름 한국언어학회 2023 언어 Vol.48 No.1

The paper explores the semantic meaning of bare nouns in donkey sentence. Korean is known as an articleless language, and the ambiguous meaning of covarying interpretation between universal and existential reading in donkey sentences can be achieved by means of bare nouns. The following questions need to be addressed: First, what are the characteristics of Korean bare nouns in donkey sentences? Second, how can we capture the unifying formal analysis between universal and existential readings? For these questions, this study proposes the following answers. First, the bare nouns in Korean can be treated as an e-type “numberless” definite description. Following Schwaz (2009), it is further shown that two Korean bare nouns in donkey sentences (i.e. proceeding NP vs. following NP) have a part-whole relationship in the bridging context. In this case, the following bare noun plays a role as a weak definite of type <e>. Based on the plural semantics of complete semilattice structure, the study provides a formal representation of disambiguation between existential and universal reading in donkey sentences with a quantification over situations.

On the novel type of subjunctive complementizer in Korean

강아름,전지은 고려대학교 언어정보연구소 2018 언어정보 Vol.0 No.27

Kang, Arum and Jeon, Jieun 2018. On the novel type of subjunctive complementizer in Korean. Language Information 27, 69-88. The purpose of this paper is to identify the novel types of subjunctive complementizer nka in Korean. Among the two types of interrogative complementizer variants of the ordinary interrogative complementizer ci and the modalized interrogative complementizer nka, we argue that nka is a lexicalized form of the epistemic subjunctive mood exponent appearing in subordinator C. Specifically, we show that the semantic function of nka creates epistemic weakening in subjective doxastic space and expresses speaker/subject’s epistemic uncertainty on the embedded question. Our claim will be further supported by corpus study by comparing different types of predicates selecting nka and/or ci. The theoretical implication of current study is two-folds: First, in Korean, interrogative can be another prerequisite of subjunctivity. Second, for the analysis of interrogative subjunctive, the inquisitive-based theory is untenable but nonveridicality can provide the general theory.

한국어 이접 표지자 ‘이나’와 ‘인가’의 의미 분석

강아름 한국중원언어학회 2023 언어학연구 Vol.- No.67

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관형 명사 ‘완전’의 부사적 용법

강아름 한국생성문법학회 2023 생성문법연구 Vol.33 No.3

The primary objective of this study is to investigate the syntactic-semantic role of the modifier noun wancen ‘complete’ in the Korean language. The crucial puzzle lies in the fact that wancen modifies a noun phrase while its meaning aligns with the maximizer “completely.” Challenging the findings of prior research, which suggested that wancen functions as a speaker-oriented adverb, we propose that wancen indeed operates as a typical degree modifier, akin to the adjective completa 'complete' combining with property concept nouns in Spanish. To demonstrate this, we employ the MEAS operator as a null functional head, revealing that the noun combined with wancen can encompass semantics including degrees. As a result, wancen targets the interrelation between degrees and individuals, ultimately fixing the degree at the maximum point on the scale. Such an analysis strengthens the parallelism between the adjectival and nominal domains from a cross-linguistic perspective, thus contributing significantly to our comprehension of scalarity.

A Study of Polarity Items through Word2Vec: wh-so-ever vs. any

강아름,이용훈 한국중앙영어영문학회 2023 영어영문학연구 Vol.65 No.2

In this paper, we investigate the role of wh-so-ever (i.e. whatsoever) in English. Traditionally, the function of whatsoever has been defined as manifesting emphasis used after a negative phrase. However, it does not explain the following puzzle properly: First, the occurrence of whatsoever is quite similar to the NPI any in that its occurrence is not limited negative context, but it can occur in downward entailing and nonveridical context. Second, unlike any, whatsoever can give rise to emphatic effect in both negative and non-negative system. Given this phenomenon, we raise our research questions as follows. First, how can we capture the proper licensing conditions of whatsoever? Second, how can we account for the core properties of the polarity sensitive item whatsoever for emphasis? To answer these questions, we examined an empirical and theoretical link between any and whatsoever. First, we conducted Word2Vec analysis (a floating-point real-valued vector representation) between each NPI and a set of NPI licensors. The result was that any and whatsoever exhibit the strikingly similar NPI licensing environments. We further showed that whatsoever has a distinct characteristic of exhaustivity, which captures the different behaviors in the emphatic effect. Our novel finding provides us with a perspective that more detailed distinction in polarity item system should be called for.