Minju Kim
List of John Benjamins publications for which Minju Kim plays a role.
Journal
Articles
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 | Article
2020 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… read more
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 | Article
2009 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
The Diachronic Development of the Korean Existential Verb ISS- Korean Linguistics 14, pp. 91–111 | Article
2008 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