A Study on Korean Support Verb Constructions of ‘hata’ for Chinese Learners: Focused on its Stylistic Variant
Support verb is a kind of verb with special features which has been found in various languages such as French, English, German, etc. U...
A Study on Korean Support Verb Constructions of ‘hata’ for Chinese Learners: Focused on its Stylistic Variant
Support verb is a kind of verb with special features which has been found in various languages such as French, English, German, etc. Usually the arguments of a sentence are decided by the verb functioning as a predicate in the sentence. However, a support verb forms a predicate combining with a predicative noun and the main meaning of a support verb construction resides on the predicative noun while the support verb, contributing little to the semantic content, helps to realize the grammatical categories in the construction. Thus the support verb is also named a light verb, a dummy verb or functional verb, etc.
The most typical support verb in Korean is ‘hata’. However ‘hata’ sometimes can be replaced by other support verbs with an stylistic meaning. Those support verbs are called stylistic variant of ‘hata’ by Hong Jea Sung(1999).
In this study I focused on the lexical combination between predicative nouns and support verbs. And all of the support verbs presented in this study are 'hata' and its stylistic variant. The purpose of this study is to present the possible support verb constructions and to make contrast between those constructions and the Chinese expressions which are semantically similar to them.
Firstly those predicative nouns in ‘the Vocabulary List for Korean Learning’ which can be combined with ‘hata’ and their arguments are presented in the third section. Then I examined the possible combinations between those predicative nouns and the stylistic variant of ‘hata’ based on dictionaries and the list of those object-predicate support verb constructions were also presented in the third section.
Chinese, as a typical isolating language, differs from Korean linguistic typologically, which is a typical agglutinative language. For example Support verbs can be rarely seen in Chinese since a lot of words can function as more than one part of speech by the changing of order in the sentences. In the fourth section of this study, the similarities and differences between Korean support verb constructions and corresponding Chinese expressions are presented. As a result, in some expressions structure of the expressions and the vocabulary used in both of the two languages are extremely similar to each other while some are not. Regarding to the structures of the expression, all of the support verb constructions in this study are in the 'predicate-object' structure, while more structures are found those the Chinese expressions.
Since an ideal pedagogy should be based on learners' characteristics where their first language may play an important role, those results mentioned in this study can be utilized in Korean teaching targeting Chinese learners.
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