CUE RELIABILITY, COMMUNICATIVE EFFICIENCY, AND DIFFERENTIAL SUBJECT MARKING: EVIDENCE FROM KOREAN.
This article investigates the role of situational context in differential case marking. Evidence from conversation data in Korean demonstrates that caseless subjects are predominantly found in event-reporting clauses that have an agent directly identifiable in the here and now, while case-marked sub...
| Published in: | Language Vol. 100; no. 3; pp. 468 - 505 |
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Cambridge University Press
Sep2024
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