NDLI: Explaining variation in Korean case ellipsis: Economy versus iconicity

Please wait, while we are loading the content...

Explaining variation in Korean case ellipsis: Economy versus iconicity

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Lee, Hanjung
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	The naturalness with which case ellipsis occurs in certain environments in Korean has been attributed to the information status and markedness of arguments. In recent accounts of case ellipsis in colloquial Korean proposed by Lee (Lang Res 42:323–355, 2006a; J Pragmat 39:1465–1481, 2007) and Kim (PhD dissertation, 2008), the effects of these factors on case ellipsis have been subsumed under iconicity of complexity. In this paper we argue that iconicity plays no role in stating and explaining patterns of variation in case ellipsis and propose an alternative usage-based explanation in terms of economy. This proposal subsumes and clarifies previous findings about the influence of the factors of contrastiveness, animacy, and definiteness and connects these findings to asymmetries in frequency and predictability. In addition, the economy account leads to a number of other predictions that the iconicity account does not make, including differences in the direction of the effects of contrastiveness and animacy/definiteness and differences between subject and object marking. Using evidence from two rating experiments, this paper also demonstrates that preference for case ellipsis on three subtypes of focused objects (selecting, replacing, and informational focus) increases relative to the degree of predictability whereas average ratings between sentences with these subtypes of focus subjects do not show a statistically significant difference. This finding is not consistent with the prediction of the iconicity-of-the-complexity principle and cannot be accounted for in terms of the dichotomous distinction between contrastive vs. non-contrastive focus. This paper is the first demonstration that the gradient pattern of case ellipsis shown by subtypes of focus can be explained in terms of asymmetries in frequency and predictability, i.e., the economy principle, and suggests that it may be possible to explain the effects of information structural factors and animacy/definiteness on the ellipsis of case markers for both focused and non-focus arguments entirely through the economy principle.
Starting Page	291
Ending Page	318
Page Count	28
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09258558
Journal	Journal of East Asian Linguistics
Volume Number	19
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15728560
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2010-12-21
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Case ellipsis Case marking Economy Frequency Predictability Iconicity Focus types Contrastiveness Animacy Definiteness Languages and Literature Theoretical Languages Comparative Linguistics Chinese Japanese
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Linguistics and Language History and Philosophy of Science

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

Parallel Optimization in Case Systems: Evidence from Case Ellipsis in Korean*

Stem-final obstruent variation in Korean

Phases and argument ellipsis in Japanese

Notes on nominal ellipsis and the nature of no and classifiers in Japanese

Verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis in Japanese

Mismatch of topic between Japanese and Korean

A Common Korean and Japanese Copula

Parametric variation in subordinate evaluative negation: Korean/Japanese versus others

Variation in Form-Meaning Mapping between Korean and English Counterfactuals

Explaining variation in Korean case ellipsis: Economy versus iconicity

Similar Documents

Parallel Optimization in Case Systems: Evidence from Case Ellipsis in Korean*

Stem-final obstruent variation in Korean

Phases and argument ellipsis in Japanese

Notes on nominal ellipsis and the nature of no and classifiers in Japanese

Verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis in Japanese

Mismatch of topic between Japanese and Korean

A Common Korean and Japanese Copula

Parametric variation in subordinate evaluative negation: Korean/Japanese versus others

Variation in Form-Meaning Mapping between Korean and English Counterfactuals

Explaining variation in Korean case ellipsis: Economy versus iconicity