초록 열기/닫기 버튼
In the linguistic typological perspective, Korean grammatical phenomena may have relations to linguistic universalities. This study aims reanalyse the group noun subjects, subject honorific expressions, and so-called ergative verbs constructions as voice phenomena parallel with inverse voice. According to the universal nominal hierarchy, the first person pronoun (speaker) is the most topical and frequently coded as a subject. However inverse voice shows that the patient as subject is more topical than the agent, but the agent retains considerable topicality in the nominal hierarchy. Furthermore, Inverse voice represents the default cultural values of a community which are coded in a different linguistic form and are reversed for specific communicative purposes (Maldonado 2007). Similarly, a group noun subject and a honorific subject cannot be a first person. Subjects of so-called ergative verbs in Middle Korean have supernatural powers and are socially remote roles such as kings or generals. So group noun subjects with case marker eyse, subject honorific markers kkeyse and -si-, and so-called ergative verbs represent the way the norm has been reversed.
키워드열기/닫기 버튼
linguistic typology, voice, inverse voice, group noun subject, subject honorific, ergative verb
