Grammar is constantly emergent as an aggregate whole of discourse tendencies that are
present in language use between interlocutors, hence the notion 'emergent …

With the technological benefits and challenges computer-mediated communication
provides, interactants in social network service (SNS) communication are driven to use …

In Korean the speaker-addressee relationship is reflected in mandatory sentence-final
verbal morphology. It indicates, among other things, the speaker's attitudinal, emotional …

This paper examines the relationship between middle and passive voice constructions in
Korean, in particular how they have come to share the same grammatical marker-eci. Based …

This paper tells the story of the form ve in Roon, a language of the South Halmahera West
New Guinea branch of Austronesian. The myriad functions of ve, including DO, GIVE, SAY …

Korean has a large inventory of color terms lexicalized through diverse strategies. Sound
symbolism is one of the most determinative factors. Sound symbolism operative in color …

The concept of coarseness encoded by the lexeme mak 'coarsely'is represented at various
levels of grammar in Modern Korean. At the level of lexis, the adverb mak designates …

Voice-markers enable speakers to profile a situation/event in ways that reflect their
perspective of 'who'or 'what'is being foregrounded as the discourse unfolds. Our diachronic …

Korean has highly formulaic patterns of repeating a sentence two or more times with a
variation of speech level indicated by the sentence-final particles. The repetition usually …

This dissertation explores the multifaceted Korean interjection'ney'from the pragmatic,
multimodal, and historical perspectives. As a polite expression,'ney'demonstrates a …