Korean: An Essential Grammar

ISBN-13: 9780415385138 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 272 str.

Young-Key Kim-Renaud

Opis

Korean: An Essential Grammar is a concise and convenient guide to the basic grammatical structure of standard Korean. Presenting a fresh and accessible description of the language, this engaging Grammar uses clear, jargon-free explanations and sets out the complexities of Korean in short, readable sections.

Key features include:

• clear explanations of grammatical terms
• frequent use of authentic examples
• Korean alphabet used alongside McCune-Reischauer romanization system
• full glossary of explanations

Recenzje

'I am writing to thank you for "Korean - An Essential Grammar", Routledge, 2009.  I had the great fortune to discover it two weeks ago and even at first glance it was clear I had found a small treasure.  Since then I have been using every spare moment to fly through it, as though it were a thriller novel.  Because it has been thrilling.  The clarity and precision of your writing combined with skillful treatment of meanings, historical perspectives, and sufficient examples (thanks for the English-grammar instruction too!) have made this book into a 'page-turner' for me - right through to the last word.
I am not a linguist, nor likely ever to be one. But if anything can bring home the excitement of understanding the structure of a language, it is this beautiful primer of yours. It will remain in close reach as a reference.' - Don Lacy, Customer

Spis treści

Preface  List of Abbreviations and Notations  Glossary  0. Introduction  Korean and its speakers  1. Writing system  2.1. History  2.2. Inventory  2.3. Romanization  2. Pronunciation  2.1. The Syllable  2.2. Consonants   2.3. Vowels  2.4. Intonation  3. Sentence  3.1. The elements of a simple sentence  3.1.1. Subject  3.1.2. Object  3.1.2. Predicate  3.2. Sentence patterns  3.3. Basic word order  4. Words  4.1. Types of vocabulary  4.2. Expanding words  5. Verbs  5.1. Action verbs  5.2. Descriptive verbs  5.3. Two kinds of ‘be’  5.4. Making new verbs  5.5. Marking time and aspect  5.6. Honorification  5.6.1. Subject honorification  5.6.2. Addressee honorification   5.6.3. Reference honorification  5.7. Causatives and passives  6. Nouns, pronouns, classifiers, noun phrases  6.1. Proper and common nouns   6.2. Pronouns  6.3. Numerals and numeral classifiers  6.3. Making new nouns  6.4. Making noun phrases  6.5. Noun compounds  6.6. Word order in noun phrases  6.7. Case marking  7. Modifiers  7.1 Adverbs  7.2 Noun modifiers  7.3 Deictics  8. Mimetic words  8.1. Reduplication  8.2. Vowel  9. Negation  9.1. Short-form  9.2. Long-form  10. Expanded sentences  10.1. Compound sentences  10.2. Complex sentences  11. Casual speech  12. Linguistic protocol  12.1. Choosing the appropriate speech form  12.2. Honorific readjustments and politeness strategies  12.3. Language, ideology, and society  Glossary of terms with explanations  List of particles, suffixes, and sentential endings  Further reading

O autorze

Young-Key Kim-Renaud is Professor of Korean Language and Culture and International Affairs, and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the George Washington University in DC.