"Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English presents fundamental research on the use of English by South Korean speakers. Despite the extraordinary and vibrant status of the English language in South Korean society (demonstrated, for example, by the notion of English Fever), research on the forms of English in the South Korean context has been sadly neglected in the study of World Englishes. This monograph is the first to provide a rich and contextualized description of the Korean English morpho-syntactic repertoire. It draws on the specifically compiled Spoken Korean English (SPOKE) corpus to shed light on Korean uses of plural marking, articles, pronouns, prepositions, and verbs in spoken English, and demonstrates that English is indeed the language of those who use it. This volume will be highly relevant for researchers interested in Expanding Circle Englishes, Asian Englishes, spoken language corpora, and morpho-syntactic variation"--.

• Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Abbreviations
• List of tables
• List of figures
• Acknowledgments
• Transliteration
• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Aims and objectives of the study
  • 1.2 Theoretical and methodological framework
  • 1.3 Outline
• 2. The language contact situation in Korea
  • 2.1 English in Korea
    • 2.1.1 Socio-historical background
    • 2.1.2 The Korean education system
      • English in pre-primary, primary, and secondary school education
      • English in university education
      • Private English education
    • 2.1.3 English at the workplace and in business relations
    • 2.1.4 English in the media and pop culture
      • Newspapers
      • Advertising
      • Music
      • Movies and television
      • Radio and broadcasting
    • 2.1.5 The linguistic landscape
    • 2.1.6 Personal contacts
    • 2.1.7 Language politics in Korea
    • 2.1.8 Attitudes towards English
    • 2.1.9 ‘English Fever’
  • 2.2 Some characteristics of the Korean language
• 3. Theorizing English in South Korea
  • 3.1 Previous research on Korean English forms
  • 3.2 Users versus learners of English
  • 3.3 World Englishes models and Korea
  • 3.4 A note on terminology
• 4. Methodology and participants
  • 4.1 Research questions
  • 4.2 Written and spoken language research
  • 4.3 The data collection process and the SPOKE corpus
    • 4.3.1 The cuppa coffee approach
    • 4.3.2 Corpus overview and description
    • 4.3.3 The participants
      • Profession
      • English proficiency and experiences abroad
  • 4.4 Other corpora consulted and analytical tools used
    • The Santa Barbara Corpus of American English
    • The British National Corpus
    • The Corpus of Contemporary American English
    • Analytical tools
    • Analytical procedure
  • 4.5 Selection of morpho-syntactic patterns for investigation
• 5. Morpho-syntactic patterns of spoken English in Korea
  • 5.1 Nouns
    • 5.1.1 Countability – Non-count nouns in English and in Korean
      • Countability in English
      • Countability in Korean
      • The use of non-count nouns in the SPOKE corpus
    • 5.1.2 Minus-plural marking
      • 5.1.2.1 Plural marking in English and in Korean
      • 5.1.2.2 The use of plural marking on nouns in the SPOKE corpus – Reduced plural redundancy
    • 5.1.3 Discussion
  • 5.2 Pronouns
    • 5.2.1 Pronouns in English and Korean
      • Pronouns in English
      • Pronouns in Korean
    • 5.2.2 Personal pronoun frequencies in the SPOKE corpus
    • 5.2.3 Minus-pronouns in the SPOKE corpus
      • 5.2.3.1 Case study 1: ‘I’ as minus-pronoun in subject position
      • 5.2.3.2 Case study 2: ‘It’ as minus-pronoun in subject position
      • 5.2.3.3 Case study 3: ‘It’ as minus-pronoun in object position
    • 5.2.4 Discussion
  • 5.3 Articles
    • 5.3.1 Articles in English and in Korean
      • Articles in English
      • Articles in Korean
    • 5.3.2 Article frequencies in the SPOKE corpus
    • 5.3.3 The definite article
      • 5.3.3.1 Case study 1: Articles + nouns denoting social institutions
      • 5.3.3.2 Case study 2: Quantifying expressions
      • 5.3.3.3 Case study 3: Temporal expressions
      • 5.3.3.4 Case study 4: Proper nouns
      • 5.3.3.5 Case study 5: Deverbal nouns in -‘ing’
    • 5.3.4 The indefinite article
    • 5.3.5 Discussion
  • 5.4 Prepositions
    • 5.4.1 Prepositions in English and in Korean
      • Prepositions in English
      • Prepositions in Korean
    • 5.4.2 Frequencies of simple prepositions in the SPOKE corpus
      • 5.4.2.1 Case study 1: The preposition ‘on’
      • 5.4.2.2 Case study 2: The preposition ‘like’
      • 5.4.2.3 Plus-, minus-, and swap-prepositions
      • Plus-prepositions
      • Verb plus preposition
      • Plus-preposition plus adverb
      • Plus-prepositions in other contexts
      • Minus-prepositions
      • Swap-prepositions
    • 5.4.3 A note on word order
    • 5.4.4 Discussion
  • 5.5 Verbs
    • 5.5.1 The verb systems of English and Korean
      • The English verb system
      • The Korean verb system
    • 5.5.2 Minus-verbs in the SPOKE corpus
      • 5.5.2.1 Minus-copular verbs
      • 5.5.2.2 Minus-lexical verbs
      • 5.5.2.3 Minus-auxiliary verbs
    • 5.5.3 Discussion
• 6. Discussion
  • 6.1 Morpho-syntactic patterns of spoken Korean(ized) English
  • 6.2 Implications and outlook
• 7. Conclusion
• References
• Appendix: Transcription conventions
• Subject index