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Asymmetric EventsEdited by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 11] 2008
► pp. 87–102
4. What does coordination look like in a head-final language?
Nayoung Kwon | University of California, San Diego
Maria Polinsky | University of California, San Diego
Theories of clause linking treat coordination and subordination as mutually exclusive. In this paper, we examine a case where the surface distinction between coordination and subordination is obscured. Concentrating on the-ko construction in Korean, we show that a clause chain can be structurally ambiguous – it can either have all the properties of a coordinate structure or all the properties of a subordinate structure. The choice between the two types is determined by the construal of the events in question as parallel (coordination) vs. causal/sequential (subordination). We present diagnostics for determining subordination vs. coordination and show a correlation between syntactic and semantic properties involved in such structures.
Keywords: causality, clause chain, clause linkage, coherence, Coordinate structure constraint (CSC), coordination, -ko construction, Korean, sequentiality, subordination
Published online: 15 May 2008
https://doi.org/10.1075/celcr.11.06kwo
https://doi.org/10.1075/celcr.11.06kwo
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