dc.creator | Allman, JungAe Lee | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-02T13:42:19Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-10-02T13:42:19Z | |
dc.date.created | 2017-08 | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-01-14 | |
dc.date.submitted | August 2017 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10106/26943 | |
dc.description.abstract | According to the Unaccusative Hypothesis (UH), intransitive verbs can be
divided into two classes: unaccusative verbs (e.g. fall) and unergative verbs (e.g.
dance) (Burzio 1986, Perlmutter 1978). Several approaches have been developed
to distinguish between these two classes of verbs across languages. Sorace (2000)
also developed the Split Intransitive Hierarchy (SIH) which proposes that there is
a continuum of intransitive verbs ranging from unaccusative to unergative.
Evidence for the Unaccusative Hypothesis has been developed from an
empirical perspective. The aim of this dissertation is to complement the linguistic
theory of the UH in Korean by examining two Korean unaccusative diagnostics
using two empirical methodologies. This study combines evidence from an
acceptability ratings experiment with corpus linguistic data to investigate whether
the Korean unaccusative diagnostics are supported in real data.
For the corpus-based study, two Korean unaccusative diagnostics were
chosen: the case marking of floating quantifiers (CFQ), and the case marking of
oblique nominals (CON) (Yang 1991). These two diagnostics were investigated
using the Sejong Morph Tagged Corpus. The corpus-based findings indicate that:
1) there is a distinction between unaccusative verbs and unergative verbs in the
corpus, and 2) the case-marking floating quantifier diagnostic needs to be
complemented with an adverb factor. In addition, these two diagnostics were
evaluated using the SIH verbal categories. The data indicate that they were not
sensitive to this hierarchy.
For the acceptability ratings experiment, an online survey was conducted
to determine the degree of acceptability for unaccusative and unergative verbs
with the case marking of floating quantifiers. The results showed that generally
people rated UA verbs higher than UE verbs. However, the adverb factor affected
the rating of UE verbs. | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.subject | Korean unaccusatives | |
dc.title | EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OF TWO DIAGNOSTICS OF KOREAN UNACCUSATIVITY | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Witzel, Jeffrey D. | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Witzel, Naoko O. | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Yoon, Suwon | |
dc.degree.department | Linguistics | |
dc.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics | |
dc.date.updated | 2017-10-02T13:42:19Z | |
thesis.degree.department | Linguistics | |
thesis.degree.grantor | The University of Texas at Arlington | |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics | |
dc.type.material | text | |