"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 case phenomena such as multiple nominative/accusative, non-nominative subject, and adverbial case constructions, this book adopts an independently established descriptive construct known as reference point in the framework of Cognitive Grammar. The author demonstrates that if we adopt the notion of reference point, we not only explain a substantially wider set of data, but we also reach a more reasonable generalization. The intended audience of this book are researchers who are interested in case phenomena, without respect to their theoretical persuasions"--.

• Reference Point and Case
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication page
• Table of contents
• List of abbreviations
• List of tables
• List of figures
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Korean case: Where to start
  • 1.2 A new-old perspective: Case and conceptual semantics
  • 1.3 Case and grammatical functions
  • 1.4 A summary of chapters
• 2. An overview of Cognitive Grammar
  • 2.1 Motivation
  • 2.2 Foundational CG notions
    • 2.2.1 Symbolic assemblies
    • 2.2.2 Construal
      • 2.2.2.1 Specificity
      • 2.2.2.2 Focusing
      • 2.2.2.3 Prominence
      • 2.2.2.4 Perspective
  • 2.3 Technical CG notions
    • 2.3.1 Correspondence and elaboration
    • 2.3.2 Profile determinants and complements
    • 2.3.3 Grounding
  • 2.4 Reference point
    • 2.4.1 Reference point in CG
    • 2.4.2 Applications of reference point
  • 2.5 Conclusion
• 3. Multiple nominative constructions
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Properties of MNCs
  • 3.3 Properties of the NPs in MNCs
  • 3.4 A clause-level subject as a reference point subject
  • 3.5 A CG-based analysis of Korean MNCs
    • 3.5.1 The notion of subject elaborated
    • 3.5.2 Reference point subject creation
    • 3.5.3 Metonymy and domain highlighting
  • 3.6 Double subject constructions proper versus complex predicate constructions
  • 3.7 Topic-marked MNCs
  • 3.8 Conclusion
• 4. Multiple accusative constructions
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Grammar as a metonymic process
    • 4.2.1 Profile–active zone discrepancy
    • 4.2.2 Multiple nominative constructions in Japanese and Korean
  • 4.3 The phenomenon: Korean MACs
    • 4.3.1 The data
    • 4.3.2 The problems and the proposal
      • 4.3.2.1 The problems
      • 4.3.2.2 The proposal
  • 4.4 Five characteristics of MACs
    • 4.4.1 Unlimited number of accusative-marked NPs
    • 4.4.2 The non-constituent nature of the NPs in MACs
    • 4.4.3 The property of the outer NPs
    • 4.4.4 The relational property of NP2 in IAP
    • 4.4.5 The ordering of the NPs
  • 4.5 Commonalities and differences among MACs
    • 4.5.1 Reference point and the three types of MACs
    • 4.5.2 Adverbial case-marking
    • 4.5.3 Floated quantifiers
  • 4.6 Technical analyses
  • 4.7 Conclusion
• 5. Non-nominative subjects and case stacking
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 The subject properties and research questions
    • 5.2.1 Subject properties of non-nominative-marked nominals
    • 5.2.2 Honorific agreement, case alternation, and case stacking
    • 5.2.3 Some questions concerning Korean non-nominative subject constructions
  • 5.3 BE possession
  • 5.4 Analysis: Reference point, locative schema, and blending
    • 5.4.1 Subject honorification
    • 5.4.2 Case alternation
    • 5.4.3 Case stacking
    • 5.4.4 Subject properties revisited
  • 5.5 Conclusion
• 6. Case-marked adverbials
  • 6.1 Overview and proposal
  • 6.2 Previous proposals
  • 6.3 Setting, location, and reference point
    • 6.3.1 Setting and location
    • 6.3.2 Setting subject
    • 6.3.3 Reference point
  • 6.4 Animacy and the predicate’s aspectual properties
  • 6.5 Construals
    • 6.5.1 Perfective vs. imperfective verbs
    • 6.5.2 The construals of adverbials with inanimate subjects
    • 6.5.3 CG illustrations of setting subject constructions
    • 6.5.4 A CG illustration of location object constructions
  • 6.6 The construals of animate subjects
  • 6.7 Conclusion
• 7. Case and verbal nouns
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Issues on verbal nouns
    • 7.2.1 Four existing approaches to verbal nouns
    • 7.2.2 Verbal nouns in light verb constructions
  • 7.3 The base content of verbal nouns
  • 7.4 Indirect nominal grounding
  • 7.5 Common noun uses of verbal nouns
  • 7.6 Verbal nouns in MACs
  • 7.7 Verbal nouns in the light verb construction
  • 7.8 Conclusion
• 8. Subject-to-object raising
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Issues
    • 8.2.1 Raising or base-generation
    • 8.2.2 MNC-based generation
      • 8.2.2.1 Interpretive properties of Korean SOR constructions: Yoon (2004b, 2007)
      • 8.2.2.2 Major subjects
    • 8.2.3 Processing-based analysis
  • 8.3 SOR in CG
    • 8.3.1 Raising in CG
    • 8.3.2 SOR and MNC
    • 8.3.3 Interpretive properties redux
  • 8.4 SOR and related constructions
  • 8.5 Conclusion
• 9. Nominative-nominative stacking
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 Previous research and criticism: Cho and Sells (1995) and Sells (1995a)
  • 9.3 Previous research and criticism: Yoon (2005)
    • 9.3.1 Subject of the ‘become’ verb
    • 9.3.2 Floated quantifiers
    • 9.3.3 MNCs
    • 9.3.4 Tough construction
    • 9.3.5 Ablative subject construction
    • 9.3.6 Case stacking
    • 9.3.7 Not enough evidence for ‘-kkeyse’ as a structural case marker
  • 9.4 Previous research and criticism: Levin (2017)
    • 9.4.1 On overgeneration
    • 9.4.2 ‘-kkeyse’ as a structural case marker
    • 9.4.3 Additional comments on the revised dependent case model
  • 9.5 On the morpho-syntactic status of ‘-kkeyse’
    • 9.5.1 Icelandic structural/lexical case
    • 9.5.2 On the tests for structural/lexical case status
  • 9.6 CG analysis
    • 9.6.1 NNS with ‘-kkeyse’
    • 9.6.2 ‘-kkeyse’ with other affixes
    • 9.6.3 Case dropping
  • 9.7 Conclusion
• 10. Conclusion
• References
• Index