한국어 양태 한정사에 대한 소고

강아름(Kang, Arum) 한국언어학회 2020 언어 Vol.45 No.4

The main goal of this paper is to investigate the semantico-pragmatic contribution of the novel type of ku combining with wh-indeterminates. Given that the traditional role of ku is associated with demonstrative and definiteness, the occurrence of ku with wh-indeterminates would result in an identifiability mismatch because wh-indeterminates are inherently intensional, and they cannot have ostensive denotation or refer back to anaphoric reference. Given the set of empirical data, my proposal is that ku with wh-indeterminates can be characterized as a modal determiner. In this sense, the modal determiner ku is akin to so of wh-soever in English. Further, our claim is supported by corpus study by showing that the licensing environment of modal determiner ku is similar toWwh-ever rather than any. Specifically, with the full range of phenomena, I suggest the following five features, i.e., polarity, contextual domain restriction, lack of scalarity, contrastive focus and maximality, as core properties of modal determiner. Notably, I subsume the expanded uses of ku under the more general analysis of contrastive focus and maximality, which can be conceptually linked to the distinct realm of demonstrative/definite ku and its stretched modal use.

부사 ‘그렇게’의 극성 연구

강아름(Kang, Arum),김소희(Kim, Sohee) 한국언어학회 2019 언어 Vol.44 No.2

The purpose of current study is to identify the semantic-o-pragmatic role of Korean adverb kulehkey ‘so/very/that much.’Korean Journal of Linguistics, Thus far, the role of kulehkey has been treated as a polysemy between strong NPI and degree adverb. Given the set of empirical data, however, our novel claim is that the function of kulehkey can be unified under the single role of NPI(strong/weak). Following the framework of the scalar principle and scalar model theory, we show that weak NPI kulehkey functions as an emphatic scalar intensifier whereas strong NPI kulehkey as an attenuating NPI. As an intensifier, kulehkey emphasizes the speaker’s attitude that can be characterized as involving a high scalarity of the speaker’s commitment to the proposition. Our claim will be further supported by corpus study. Theoretical implication of current study is to provide the widened view of crosslinguistic variation to cases where language parameterize the semantics and pragmatics of their non-degreeable and rhetoric scalar reasoning.

Path to grammaticalization of referentially vague indefinite wh-inka in Korean

Arum Kang(강아름) 담화·인지언어학회 2021 담화·인지언어학회 학술대회 발표논문집 Vol.2021 No.11

Wh-so-ever 무조건문의 화용적 강조: 초점과 양보 효과

강아름(Arum Kang) 한국영어학회 2024 영어학 Vol.24 No.-

This paper investigates the semantico-pragmatic role of infix so combining with wh-ever unconditional. Specifically, we focus on the strengthening effect and concessive meaning induced by so in wh-ever unconditional. Based on Rawlins (2013) and Hong (2010), we analyze the dual role of so as a focus marker and a pragmatic illocutionary operator. As a focus marker, so generates an expanded set of alternative propositions in possible worlds. As an illocutionary operator, so establishes an ordered pragmatic scale having universal quantification. Consequently, this results in a heightened concessive effect and an intensified emphatic meaning. The contribution of current work lies in clarifying the meaning of infix so, which has not been previously explored in terms of the pragmatic aspect.

초점 보조사 ‘까지’의 역할: 화용적 척도와 영역 확장

강아름(Kang, Arum) 한국언어학회 2021 언어 Vol.46 No.4

In this paper, we investigate the semantico-pragmatic role of the scalar focus operator kkaci ‘even; up to’ in Korean. Thus far, kkaci has been analyzed as equivalent to even in English expressing the least likelihood proposition from the set of alternatives. Given a set of empirical data, however, we identify kkaci as another subtype of a scalar focus operator. Our proposal comprises two main parts: First, remaining the core properties of the scalar focus operator even, the scale of kkaci interacts with the scales of ‘pragmatic strength’. In the pragmatic scale, the prejacent of kkaci is stronger than all alternatives in C and makes the pragmatically strongest statement. From the pragmatic view, accordingly, all other alternative propositions would be taken for granted. Second, for the set of alternatives of kkaci under considerations, they are not in the common ground (consisting of actual worlds) but in the context set (consisting of the candidates for the actual world, i.e. speaker’s doxastic worlds). Depending on the situation of utterance, the domain of alternatives can be restricted into the relevant subset or widened into the outlandish worlds. The current analysis thus suggests an extended spectrum of kkaci in Korean to the novel subtype of scalar focus operators.

의문 보문소로서의 ‘ㄹ지’: 상위 술어의 (비)진실성과 (비)사실성

강아름 ( Arum Kang ),송상헌 ( Sanghoun Song ) 한국외국어대학교 언어연구소 2021 언어와 언어학 Vol.- No.92

This article concerns the semantico-pragmatic role of the interrogative complementizer (u)lci in Korean. Thus far, compared to (u)nci, which has a variant of interrogative complementizer, (u)lci has received less attention. The main question we address is why (u)lci gives rise to epistemic modal reading (i.e., speaker’s/subject’s uncertainty) in the embedded clause. Given that the core properties of a complementizer can be characterized by the types of main predicates that it takes, the main focus will be the realization of matrix predicates in Korean. For the detailed discussion, we conduct a corpus study and empirically verify that the predicates taking (u)lci should be non-factive and non-veridical. Such a connection is naturally predicated because historically, (u)lci must have been grammaticalized from the combination of the irrealis mood marker (u)l and the bound noun do which leads to the idea that the lexicon of (u)lci in modern Korean has come to have an irrealis mood meaning. Accordingly, there exists a strong tendency to show a gradience between (u)lci and non-veridical predicates.

한국어 ‘그’의 실현 양상과 개념적 연관

정유남(Cheong, Yunam),강아름(Kang, Arum) 담화·인지언어학회 2021 담화와 인지 Vol.28 No.1

The purpose of the current paper is to investigate the semantico-pragmatic functions of Korean ku in terms of synchronic and diachronic perspectives. Thus far, the role of ku has been studied with modern Korean data, but the research of historical literature has not been conducted. By looking at the development of ku from 15<SUP>th</SUP> century to modern times, we subcategorize the functions of ku as three-folds: i) demonstrative, ii) definite determiner and iii) modal determiner. Based on a variety of empirical data, we further show that there exist conceptual links among the subcategorized meanings of ku. The demonstrative ku is akin to the modal determiner ku in the sense that they both presuppose anti-uniqueness. The determiner ku and the modal determiner ku are similar in that they bring about the semantic effect of maximality and domain restriction. The implication of this paper is that the polysemous ku in modern Korean is a historical result. The concrete analysis on the grammaticalization is needed which we leave for future research.

코로나19 감염 재난이 시민 기부 행동에 미친 영향에 관한 연구: 해피빈 모금 프로젝트를 중심으로

민인식 ( Min Insik ),강철희 ( Kang Chulhee ),강아름 ( Kang Arum ) 한국사회복지연구회 2021 사회복지연구 Vol.52 No.4

본 연구는 감염 재난인 코로나19의 발생 초기 시민들의 전반적인 기부 행동 양상이 어떠한지를 목표달성률, 기부자수, 1인당 기부액으로 구체화하여 살핀다. 또한, 코로나19 발생 후 시민들의 기부 행동에 있어 모금 프로젝트 속성의 영향력을 살핀다. 이를 위한 분석자료는 2019년 12월 1일부터 2020년 4월 2일까지의 기간에 해피빈에서 관찰된 완료 또는 진행 중인 기부형 모금 프로젝트들이다. 분석 결과, 첫째, 코로나19 기간과 프로젝트의 모금 기간이 겹칠수록 목표달성률은 낮아졌고, 기부 참여자 수는 줄었으며 1인당 기부액은 감소했다. 둘째, 코로나19 프로젝트인지 아닌지의 속성 차이는 모금의 목표달성률에 대해 직접효과(+)와 조절효과(+)를 가졌다. 본 연구는 코로나19 발생 초기 온라인기부 플랫폼에서 이루어진 시민들의 실제적 기부 행동을 실증적으로 검증했다는 점에서 연구의 의미가 있다. COVID-19 is a severe pandemic that has made significant negative impacts on citizens’ daily lives. It could also affect citizens’ giving behavior. This study empirically examines the natural giving behavior under COVID-19 by using fundraising project data from the most popular online charitable crowdfunding platform, ‘Happybean’ in South Korea. The result shows that the more is the fundraising period of a project overlapped with the COVID-19 period, the lower is its fundraising outcome, the number of donors, and the amount of giving per person. In addition, it shows that the COVID-19 projects achieved a higher outcome than the non-COVID-19 projects. Simultaneously the result shows that the categories of COVID-19 projects and non-COVID-19 projects had a moderation effect in the relationship between the COVID-19 overlap period and fundraising outcome. The slope of non-COVID-19 projects was relatively much steeper in a negative direction than the slope of COVID-19 projects. It implies that donors who continue to care their neighbors’ needs prioritize disaster-related issues over non-COVID-19 issues. This study contributes to understanding and promoting citizens’ giving behavior in the early period of the COVID-19.