Jae Jung Song

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jae Jung Song plays a role.

Title

Case, Typology and Grammar: In honor of Barry J. Blake

Edited by Anna Siewierska and Jae Jung Song

[Typological Studies in Language, 38] 1998. 395 pp.

Subjects Australian languages | Typology

Articles

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Song, Jae Jung 2011 English as an official language in South Korea: Global English or social malady? Language Problems and Language Planning 35:1, pp. 35–55 | Article

In largely monolingual South Korea, English has become so important that it is promoted and regarded as a major criterion in education, employment and job-performance evaluation. Recently, South Koreans have also gone so far as to debate whether to adopt English as an official language of South… read more

Song, Jae Jung 2011 There’s more than “more animate”: The Organization/Document Construction in Korean Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski (eds.), pp. 183–206 | Article

This article provides a semantic/cognitive account of the Organization/Document Construction (ODC) in Korean, with a locative nominal expressing an agent, and behaving like a subject. The article argues that metonymy provides little insight into the conceptualization involved in the ODC. Moreover,… read more

Song, Jae Jung 2010 Korean benefactive particles and their meanings Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological perspectives and case studies, Zúñiga, Fernando and Seppo Kittilä (eds.), pp. 393–418 | Article

This article investigates the grammar of Korean benefactive constructions with particular reference to the benefactive particles, eykey, (l)ulwihay(se) and taysin. The meaning contribution of these particles is shown to be so specific that their use can be explained by direct reference to their… read more

Song, Jae Jung 2009 What (not) to eat or drink: Metaphor and metonymy of eating and drinking in Korean The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking, Newman, John (ed.), pp. 195–227 | Article

This article concerns metaphorical extensions of two verbs of consumption in Korean, mek- ‘to eat’ and masi- ‘to drink’ and, to a less extent, metonymic processes built on the verb mek-. It begins with a description of the basic syntax and semantics of the two verbs with a view to understanding… read more

Song, Jae Jung 2007 Getting three out of two: The development of a three-participant construction in Oceanic languages Ditransitivity, Siewierska, Anna and Willem B. Hollmann (eds.), pp. 127–148 | Article

This article examines the development of the three-participant construction from the two-participant construction in Oceanic languages. This development involves the use of possessive classifiers for recipient or beneficiary marking. Arguments will be put forward in support of the change as an… read more

Song, Jae Jung 2006 Anthony Pym. The Moving Text: Localization, translation and distribution. Babel 52:1, pp. 86–93 | Review

Song, Jae Jung 2006 Review of Shibatani (2002): The grammar of causation and interpersonal manipulation Functions of Language 13:1, pp. 130–143 | Review

Song, Jae Jung 2005 The translatability — universals connection in linguistic typology: Much ado about something Babel 51:4, pp. 308–322 | Article

Abstract Linguistic typologists (e.g. Ramat 1987, Seiler 1995) tend to assume that there is a close connection between translatability and language universals (research) but this assumption has recently been called into question by Comrie (1986, 1989, 1998), who claims that such a connection should… read more

Song, Jae Jung 2002 14. The posture verbs in Korean: Basic and extended uses The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying, Newman, John (ed.), pp. 359–385 | Chapter

Song, Jae Jung 1999 Review of Kim-Renaud (1997): The Korean Alphabet: Its history and structure Studies in Language 23:2, pp. 454–463 | Review

Song, Jae Jung 1998 Benefactive marking in Oceanic languages: from possessive classifiers to benefactive markers Case, Typology and Grammar: In honor of Barry J. Blake, Siewierska, Anna and Jae Jung Song (eds.), pp. 247 ff. | Article

Song, Jae Jung 1998 On the development of MANNER from GIVE The Linguistics of Giving, Newman, John (ed.), pp. 327 ff. | Article

Song, Jae Jung 1997 Review of Goddard & Wierzbicka (1994): Semantic and lexical universals Lingvisticæ Investigationes 21:1, pp. 249–261 | Review