한국어 대화체 구문의 정보구조 = Preferred Information Structure in Conversational Korean

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper investigates the preferred information structure of the clauses in conversational Korean based on the notion of preferred argument structure (PAS) as proposed by Du Bois (1987) and Matsumoto (2000). PAS refers to the observed tendency for speakers to avoid expressing more than one lexical argument or more than one piece of new information in a clause, and the tendency to avoid lexical or new transitive subject. The informational structure in this paper covers non-argument NPs and deleted argument NPs as well as lexical argument NPs, and concerns both syntactic functions and informational functions of the NPs. This paper examines conversations in TV drama, and the result shows that Korean speakers avoid introducing more than one new NP per clause and that the transitive subject tends to be deleted or introduce given information. In addition, this paper argues that 'one NP per clause' is too strict to be applied universally and that it should be replaced by 'no more than two NPs per clause' constraint in Korean.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. 서론
• 2. 선행연구
• 3. 자료 및 방법
• 4. 한국어의 선호정보구조
• 5. 요약 및 결론
• 참고문헌