이 논문은 언어에 나타난 차원과 관련된 명사들이 다양한 통합적 결속과정을 통해 원인을 나타내는 복합후치사로 발전하는 과정에서 어떠한 의미차이를 나타내는지를 분석한 논문이다. 이 언어와 인지의 상호작용을 분석한 이 논문에서는 다음과 같이 중요한 이론적 함의 ...

이 논문은 언어에 나타난 차원과 관련된 명사들이 다양한 통합적 결속과정을 통해 원인을 나타내는 복합후치사로 발전하는 과정에서 어떠한 의미차이를 나타내는지를 분석한 논문이다. 이 언어와 인지의 상호작용을 분석한 이 논문에서는 다음과 같이 중요한 이론적 함의점이 발견되었다. 우선 Hopper (1991)에서 제안한 의미지속성 (persistence)을 뒷받침하는 현상으로, 어원어의 의미에 나타나는 차원과 문법화된 의미에서의 차원이 체계적으로 밀접한 상호관련성을 보인다는 것이며, 이러한 어원과 문법소의 의미와의 관련성은 Bybee et al. (1994)에서 제안한 어원결정가설 (The hypothesis of source determination)을 지지하는 것으로 해석된다. 또한 어원에서의 차원상의 차이점이 복합전치사로 발달했을 때의 문법소 간의 상호 대체 가능성이나 대체 불가능성을 잘 설명해 준다는 것을 주장하였다. 또한 특정한 부류의 명사들만이 이러한 원인표지 복합후치사로 발전하는 것을 볼 수 있는데 이것은 문법이 근본적으로 인간 인지의 투영이라는 점을 잘 보여 주고 있다 (cf. Heine 1997). 아울러 이 복합후치사로의 문법화 과정에는 다양한 주관화 (subjectification; Traugott 1982, Traugott & Konig 1991) 현상을 보이는데 이 주관화를 통해서 특정한 요소만이 강조를 위해 선택되고 다른 부분은 배경화됨을 알 수 있다. 이 논문은 개별적인 복합후치사들의 발달과정을 상세히 분석하였고 또한 차원상의 차이점이 문법기능의 출현에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 자세히 논의하였다.

This paper addresses the relation between the concept of dimension and its reflection in the grammaticalization processes whereby (defective) nominals with dimensional differences grammaticalize into complex postpositions. Of numerous implications in ...

This paper addresses the relation between the concept of dimension and its reflection in the grammaticalization processes whereby (defective) nominals with dimensional differences grammaticalize into complex postpositions. Of numerous implications in this studies of language and cognition, certain observations seem to merit special attentions: that there is a systematic correlation between the semantics of the source nominals and that of the grammaticalized forms (cf. 'persistence' Hopper 1991; 'the source determination hypothesis' Bybee et al. 1994); that the dimensional differences can account for the interchangeability and incompatibility among complex postpositions; that there is a strong tendency to recruit particular lexemes for the purpose of causality representation, illustrating how human cognition is reflected in grammar (Heine 1997); and that the grammaticalization process often involves subjectification of the language user (Traugott 1982, Traugott & König 1991), whereby only a particular aspect of event is selected for emphasis (Rhee 2007b). This paper illustrates the grammaticalization processes of the individual complex postpositions and discusses how dimensional differences influence the emergence of grammatical functions.

The concept of causality is among the primary human conceptualizations, and thus carries special significance in its linguistic representation. This is well illustrated by numerous cognitive explorations advanced by Talmy (1988, 1995) and Sweetser (19 ...

The concept of causality is among the primary human conceptualizations, and thus carries special significance in its linguistic representation. This is well illustrated by numerous cognitive explorations advanced by Talmy (1988, 1995) and Sweetser (1990) with respect to 'force dynamics' and by Bybee (1985) with respect to relevance in the ordering patterns of verbal morphology. Since the human construal of caused events in real-world situations involves diversified classification of the causal force, it is not surprising that the causal force takes on equally diverse linguistic representations.
Korean is an interesting language where such dimensionality of causality is perceptually attributable to, and analytically retrievable from, the semantics of the source lexemes of the complex postpositions, where the so-called defective nouns participate as a nominal component of the formal construct. There has been continued interest in the studies of defective nouns (Ahn 2001, Rhee 2007a for an overview), mostly with respect to their morphosyntactic and categorial characteristics. However, the causal connectives in the form of complex postpositions have received less attention from the grammaticalization perspective (cf. Ahn 1997 is a major exception). Furthermore, it has not been noted yet that the defective nouns in these causal connectives have the dimensionality variable as part of their inherent semantics, and that this dimensionality determines the behavior of the complex postposition. This paper intends to fill the gap.
The typology of causality along the physical dimension bears significance in that the members of each subcategory exhibit different behavior in terms of their syntagmatic cooccurrence, as a result of differing semantic constraints. For instance, the complex postpositions with Dimension 0 nominals tend to signify direct, yet often incidental, dynamic contacts between the causer and the caused, whereas those with Dimension 1 nominals signify linear, often temporal, connection of the causation event. In the same fashion, complex postpositions with Dimension 2 nominals largely signify causal forces operating as the background or basis, and those with Dimension 3 tend to signify more overpowering causal force, i.e., the recipient is subject to multi-dimensional causal force as if it is located 'within' a gust of wind or a cylindrical container. As for Dimension 4, the linguistic representation also shows the human's real-world perceptual situation, i.e. the fourth dimension is not as prominent and is often perceived and represented reductively as the third dimension. Consequently, the nominals in Dimensions 3 and 4 tend to be interchangeable.
Of numerous implications in the studies of language and cognition, certain observations seem to merit special attentions: that there is a systematic correlation between the semantics of the source nominals and that of the grammaticalized forms (cf. 'persistence' Hopper 1991; 'the source determination hypothesis' Bybee et al. 1994); that the dimensional differences can account for the interchangeability and incompatibility among complex postpositions; that there is a strong tendency to recruit particular lexemes for the purpose of causality representation, illustrating how human cognition is reflected in grammar (Heine 1997); and that the grammaticalization process often involves subjectification of the language user (Traugott 1982, Traugott & König 1991), whereby only a particular aspect of event is selected for emphasis (Rhee 2007b). This paper illustrates the grammaticalization processes of the individual complex postpositions and discusses how dimensional differences influence the emergence of grammatical functions.

이 논문은 당초 계획 대비하여 충분한 연구성과를 거두었다. 특히 한국어에서 활발하게 발달하고 있는 불완전 명사들 중 차원적 차이가 있는 항목들이 문법화 채널에 참여하여서도 상이한 의미를 가지며 특히 차원적 의미가 그대로 반영되고 있음을 잘 보여 주었다.
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이 논문은 당초 계획 대비하여 충분한 연구성과를 거두었다. 특히 한국어에서 활발하게 발달하고 있는 불완전 명사들 중 차원적 차이가 있는 항목들이 문법화 채널에 참여하여서도 상이한 의미를 가지며 특히 차원적 의미가 그대로 반영되고 있음을 잘 보여 주었다.
이러한 연구성과는 당초의 연구 계획에서 기술한 바와 같이 범언어적, 범인지적인 분석의 기초연구로서 뜻 깊은 연구성과로 판단되며 이를 기초로 하여 일본어와 같이 계통적으로 유사한 언어들은 물론 중국어나 유럽어들과 같이 계통적으로 다른 언어들의 경우에도 유사한 문법화 현상이 일어나는지를 살펴보는 데에 중요한 기초연구로서 활용될 것이다.