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G62 Varieties of English Around the World Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English Sofia Rüdiger John Benjamins Publishing Company Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English Varieties of English Around the World (VEAW) issn 0172-7362 A monograph series devoted to sociolinguistic research, surveys and annotated text collections. The VEAW series is divided into two parts: a text series contains carefully selected specimens of Englishes documenting the coexistence of regional, social, stylistic and diachronic varieties in a particular region; and a general series which contains outstanding studies in the field, collections of papers devoted to one region or written by one scholar, bibliographies and other reference works. For an overview of all books published in this series, please see http://benjamins.com/catalog/veaw Editor Stephanie Hackert University of Munich (LMU) Editorial Board Manfred Görlach Cologne Rajend Mesthrie University of Cape Town Peter L. Patrick University of Essex Edgar W. Schneider University of Regensburg Peter Trudgill University of Fribourg Walt Wolfram North Carolina State University Volume G62 Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English by Sofia Rüdiger Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English Sofia Rüdiger University of Bayreuth John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of 8 the American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. doi 10.1075/veaw.g62 Cataloging-in-Publication Data available from Library of Congress: lccn 2019012300 (print) / 2019019096 (e-book) isbn 978 90 272 0338 0 (Hb) isbn 978 90 272 6236 3 (e-book) © 2019 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Company · https://benjamins.com Table of contents Abbreviations ix List of tables xi List of figures xiii Acknowledgments xv Transliteration xvii Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Aims and objectives of the study 2 1.2 Theoretical and methodological framework 2 1.3 Outline 6 Chapter 2 The language contact situation in Korea 9 2.1 English in Korea 9 2.1.1 Socio-historical background 10 2.1.2 The Korean education system 13 2.1.3 English at the workplace and in business relations 17 2.1.4 English in the media and pop culture 18 2.1.5 The linguistic landscape 22 2.1.6 Personal contacts 22 2.1.7 Language politics in Korea 23 2.1.8 Attitudes towards English 23 2.1.9 ‘English Fever’ 26 2.2 Some characteristics of the Korean language 27 Chapter 3 Theorizing English in South Korea 31 3.1 Previous research on Korean English forms 31 3.2 Users versus learners of English 36 3.3 World Englishes models and Korea 41 3.4 A note on terminology 47 vi Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English Chapter 4 Methodology and participants 49 4.1 Research questions 49 4.2 Written and spoken language research 50 4.3 The data collection process and the SPOKE corpus 52 4.3.1 The cuppa coffee approach 52 4.3.2 Corpus overview and description 56 4.3.3 The participants 60 4.4 Other corpora consulted and analytical tools used 65 4.5 Selection of morpho-syntactic patterns for investigation 67 Chapter 5 Morpho-syntactic patterns of spoken English in Korea 69 5.1 Nouns 69 5.1.1 Countability – Non-count nouns in English and in Korean 69 5.1.2 Minus-plural marking 73 5.1.3 Discussion 84 5.2 Pronouns 91 5.2.1 Pronouns in English and Korean 92 5.2.2 Personal pronoun frequencies in the SPOKE corpus 95 5.2.3 Minus-pronouns in the SPOKE corpus 98 5.2.4 Discussion 108 5.3 Articles 111 5.3.1 Articles in English and in Korean 112 5.3.2 Article frequencies in the SPOKE corpus 113 5.3.3 The definite article 116 5.3.4 The indefinite article 131 5.3.5 Discussion 133 5.4 Prepositions 138 5.4.1 Prepositions in English and in Korean 139 5.4.2 Frequencies of simple prepositions in the SPOKE corpus 143 5.4.3 A note on word order 169 5.4.4 Discussion 169 5.5 Verbs 174 5.5.1 The verb systems of English and Korean 174 5.5.2 Minus-verbs in the SPOKE corpus 175 5.5.3 Discussion 185 Table of contents vii Chapter 6 Discussion 191 6.1 Morpho-syntactic patterns of spoken Korean(ized) English 191 6.2 Implications and outlook 198 Chapter 7 Conclusion 201 References 205 Appendix: Transcription conventions 225 Index 227 Abbreviations asean Association of Southeast Asian ice International Corpus of English Nations kaist Korean Advanced Institute of belf Business English as a Lingua Science and Technology Franca katusa Korean Augmentation to the bnc British National Corpus United States Army claws Constituent Likelihood l1 first language Automatic Word-tagging System l2 second language cmc computer-mediated communica- mct Ministry of Culture and Tourism tion obj object coca Corpus of Contemporary pl plural American English pos part of speech efl English as a foreign language pst past tense eif Extra- and Intra-Territorial sb Santa Barbara (Corpus of Spoken Forces (Model) American English) elf English as a Lingua Franca sla second language acquisition enl English as a native language sbj subject epik English Program in Korea spoke Spoken Corpus of Korean English esl English as a second language top topic marker ewave The Electronic World Atlas of we World Englishes Varieties of English
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