An experimental study on the production of the double accusative ditransitives in Korean
- 주제(키워드) ditransitive construction , Korean , dative alternation , case marker , double accusative , sentence completion experiment
- 주제(기타) 영어와문학
- 설명문(URI) https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/ci/sereArticleSearch/ciSereArtiView.kci?sereArticleSearchBean.artiId=ART002780245
- 등재 KCI등재
- 발행기관 미래영어영문학회
- 발행년도 2021
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000184072
- 본문언어 영어
초록/요약
The purpose of this study is to revisit the production of the Korean ditransitive constructions reported in Park & Yi (2021). The phenomenon is puzzling particularly because the double accusative ditransitive construction tends to be judged highly unacceptable and rarely observed in natural language corpora, while speakers produced a non-trivial number of them in an experimental setting. This study attempts to replicate the results of their production experiment on a different pool of participants and with a much larger sample size (N=96). Based on this new dataset, we conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis of speakers’ free continuations after two types of prompts, i.e., including either dative- or accusative-marked animate argument as a potential recipient. We examine the validity of the previous results and also discuss a variety of continuations provided by participants and their implications for Korean sentence production.
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