ERIC Number: ED148152
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Publication Date: 1975
Pages: 17
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Demonstratives and Number in Korean.
Ree, Joe J.
It is a generally held view that Korean lacks articles and that the category "number" in this language is unproductive. That is, the nouns in Korean can be used freely as definite and indefinite, and as singular and plural, without overt grammatical markers. Contrary to this view, the claim is made in this paper that non-unique nouns, i.e., nouns other than mostly kinship terms, may not be used anaphorically without the demonstrative "ku" (roughly corresponding to the English definite article "the") and, further, that if an anaphoric noun refers back to more than one member of a class, the noun must formally show the plurality. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages), Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Korean, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages), Nouns, Plurals, Pronouns
Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii, Moore Hall 215, 1890 East-West Road, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822 ($4.50 each)
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