Minju Kim
List of John Benjamins publications for which Minju Kim plays a role.
Articles
2020. Korean general extenders tunci ha and kena ha ‘or something’: Approximation, hedging, and pejorative stance in cross-linguistic comparison. Pragmatics 30:4, pp. 557–585
Using natural conversation corpora, I demonstrate that the Korean x-tunci ha ‘x-or do’ and x-kena ha ‘x-or do’, which originally list options (e.g., ‘x or y do’) have emerged as independent constructions that can indicate approximation, epistemic uncertainty, tentativeness, and even polite hedging.… read more | Article
2009. The intersection of the perfective and imperfective domains: A corpus-based study of the grammaticalization of Korean aspectual markers. Studies in Language 33:1, pp. 175–214
Using diachronic corpus data, this article examines the grammaticalization of three Korean aspectual markers, progressive ‑ko iss‑, resultative ‑e iss‑, and anterior ‑ess‑. It demonstrates that the three Korean aspectual markers emerged from the same source ‑e is(i)‑, which in the 15th C expressed… read more | Article
2008. The Diachronic Development of the Korean Existential Verb ISS-. Korean Linguistics 14, pp. 91–111
Abstract. In the 15th C, the Korean existential verb had three allomorphs, is-, isi-, and si-, while Present Day Korean has one form, iss-. Using diachronic corpus data, the present article examines the historical development of the existential verb stem leading to the current form iss-.… read more | Article