Korean: A Linguistic Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780521514859 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 316 str.

Sungdai Cho; John Whitman

Opis

The 'Korean wave' in music and film and Korea's rise as an economic power have boosted the popularity of Korean language study worldwide. This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the sound, structure, and history of Korean, with examples in Korean hangul script for students at any level of study, from undergraduate to advanced.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; Part I. Background: 2. Historical background; 3. Writing system; Part II. Language Structure: 4. Phonology and phonetics; 5. Morphology; 6. Morphosyntax: case, grammatical relations and nominalization; 7. Syntax; 8. Syntax-semantics interface; Part III. Language in Context: 9. Language and society; 10. Language and gender.