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Title: | On the relationship between middles and passives : a polyfunctional analysis of -eci in Contemporary Korean | Authors: | Ahn, M Yap, FH |
Issue Date: | 2021 | Source: | Language and linguistics, 2021, v. 22, no. 2, p. 213-242 | Abstract: | Previous studies using diachronic data from the Sejong Historical Corpus have traced the semantic extension of voice marker -eci from middle to passive uses (e.g. Ahn & Yap 2017). In this study, based on data from the Sejong Contemporary Spoken Corpus, we further examine the relationship between middle and passive uses of -eci constructions, with special attention to the neutralization of adversative readings that give rise to generalized (in addition to adversative) middle and passive -eci constructions. Our analysis reveals that judgments about adversative readings in Contemporary Korean are not emergent solely from the semantics of the verb or adjective preceding -eci but additionally are emergent and grounded in the interaction between discourse participants. The distributional characteristics of -eci also show a strong interaction between voice and tense-aspect-mood (TAM). There is also some interaction effects from register and text type/ genre, particularly in the usage frequency distribution of spontaneous and passive -eci constructions. In addition, contrary to the traditional notion that -eci is essentially a passive marker, in real usage, -eci is still far more frequently used as a middle marker than a passive marker. | Keywords: | Adversative semantics Facilitative Inchoative Middle voice Spontaneous Subjectification Tense-aspect-mood |
Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Co. | Journal: | Language and linguistics | ISSN: | 1606-822X | EISSN: | 2309-5067 | DOI: | 10.1075/lali.00081.ahn | Rights: | © ILAS This is the accepted version of the publication Ahn, M., & Yap, F. H. (2021). On the relationship between middles and passives: A polyfunctional analysis of-eci in Contemporary Korean. Language and Linguistics, 22(2), 213-242. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1075/lali.00081.ahn. |
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