Kyou-Dong Ahn

Palacký University Olomouc · Department of Asian Studies

This paper analyzes a case of grammaticalization of a sentence-final particle (sfp) -tanun that developed from an adnominal complementizer (comp) structure ta hA-non in Middle Korean (mk). This newly emerging sfp carries a wide range of subjectified and intersubjectified, i.e., stance-marking, meanings such as boastful talk, fake-mirativity, pejora...

In a recent study we used an interdisciplinary approach combining linguistics, archaeology and genetics to analyse the Transeurasian languages. Our analysis concluded that the early dispersals of these languages were driven by agriculture. A preprint published on this server presents objections to the Transeurasian hypothesis and its association wi...

이 글은 2021년 11월 과학전문학술지『Nature』에 게재된 Martine Robbeets 외 40인 공저로 트랜스유라시아어의 확산이 농업의 확산에 의해 이루어졌음을 밝힌 영문 논문을 한국의 언어학 연구자들의 편의를 위해 언어학적 연구에 초점을 두어 간추려 한국어로 간략하게 소개한 글이다.

The origin and early dispersal of speakers of Transeurasian languages—that is, Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic—is among the most disputed issues of Eurasian population history. A key problem is the relationship between linguistic dispersals, agricultural expansions and population movements4,5. Here we address this question by ‘trian...

The origin and early dispersal of speakers of Transeurasian languages, i.e., Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic, is among the most disputed issues of Eurasian population history. A key problem is the relationship between linguistic dispersals, agricultural expansions and population movements. Here we address this question through ‘tria...

This chapter presents diagnostic criteria for the classification of the Korean dialects and describes the characteristics of seven Korean dialects: Hamgyŏng, P'yŏngan, the Central, Ch'ungch'ŏng, Chŏlla, Kyŏngsang, and Jeju dialects, by phonological, grammatical, and lexical features. There have been many attempts to provide criteria for marking off...

This book provides a comprehensive account of the Transeurasian languages, and is the first major reference work in the field since 1965. The term ‘Transeurasian’ refers to a large group of geographically adjacent languages that includes five uncontroversial linguistic families: Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic. The historical conn...

Korean has some grammatical categories conveying the speaker’s subjective attitude or stance. Among them, there are a considerable number of constructions (e.g. —kocappaci and —ko ancaiss), which underwent grammaticalization into a pejorative stance marker (Rhee 1996, Ahn 2005, Koo and Rhee 2016). The complex —tapsiko is one of those constructions...

The aim of this paper is to examine grammaticalization of negative conditionals (NCs) –e kacikonun and –e senun in Korean. The main goal of this paper is to claim that: 1) emergence of a negative evaluative sense of these conditional constructions is motivated by the speaker’s construal of psychological/emotional distance in perfective usage, i.e....