Reference Point and Case: A Cognitive Grammar Exploration of Korean

by Chongwon Park

This monograph answers the rarely discussed questions of why complicated grammatical case phenomena exist in Korean and what the connection is between the case forms and their functions. The author argues that the case forms in Korean reflect patterns of the human cognitive process. While this approach may seem rather obvious to non-linguists, it is indeed a novel claim in contemporary linguistic theory. In order to provide technical analyses of Korean...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027204292
• ISBN13: 9789027204295
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 264 Pages