Description

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English and Korean have various ways of expressing grammatical prominence. While focusing in English has been studied over the past twenty years by a number of generative and functional grammarians, there is as yet no comprehensive treatment of focus phenomena in Korean. This monograph treats five focusing constructions of English and looks at their grammatical and lexical equivalents in Korean. English and Korean are different typologically. Since this difference is important, if one wishes to make sense of the diverging focusing strategies in these two languages, it is necessary to give a typological outline of English and Korean. The follwing two typological approaches figure prominently in this monograph: the basic word order typology developed by Greenberg, and the language typology proposed by Li and Thompson.

About the Author

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The Author: See-Young Cho was born in Kunsan, Korea, in 1959. He got his master's degree in English at the California State University, Chico, in 1984. He studied English linguistics, phonetics and American literature at the University of Saarland, Germany, where he received his Ph.D. in 1990. Currently, he works as an assistant at the English Department of the University of Saarland.