The goal of this paper is to re-examine some key aspects of linguistic reflexivity from the perspective of metapragmatics. The range of metapragmatic phenomena includes not only metalinguistic and metacommunicative commentary, but also reflexive properties resulting from indexicals and pragmatic markers. Moreover, metapragmatic reflexivity is linked to language ideologies and enregisterment. By considering these aspects, this paper attempts to improve Roman Jakobson's original model of linguistic reflexivity (M/M, C/C, N/C, C/M), resulting in a model of five types (M→M, M→C, M(M), C(M), C({C}). This new typology of linguistic reflexivity is characterized by the relational dimensions of explicit/implicit and contiguous/simultaneous/governing.

The purpose of this study is to explore the so-called “experiencer paradox” in English raising constructions and provide an appropriate analysis for it. In this paper, I propose a multidominance analysis for the English experiencer argument based on the fact that it has the dual nature of PP and DP. More specifically, this analysis explains the reason the intervention effect is not violated when the subject of subordinate clause moves beyond the experiencer argument to Spec-TP of the main clause, and at the same time explains the reason the experiencer argument c-commands all the elements in the subordinate TP. In particular, assuming a strictly cyclic operation in relation to the binding theory, I have analyzed both the anaphora binding constructions and the bound variable pronoun constructions.

In this study, the figurative meaning of some idioms representing personal characteristics was studied from a cognitive semantic perspective. The focus was on the kind of physical experiences the metaphorical concepts of those abstract concepts could be traced back to and their structures. For example, an analysis of the Korean somatic idioms with '눈' and '눈물' using the analytical tools of metaphorical mapping and image schema revealed that the idioms with '눈' conceptualize mental ability and the idioms with '눈물' conceptualize emotional competence. In detail, starting with 'human is the body' as the highest level of metaphor, it turned out that the concept of mental ability is traced back to the bodily experience of 'brightening', 'opening', and 'broadening', and that emotional competence, which is divided into 'sensitivity' and 'emotional empathy', is conceptualized by the presence and the amount of tears.

This study aims to show that adjunct ellipsis is allowed, albeit fairly restrictively, in Korean and how it is licensed and recovered. First, I closely examine the various environments reported in the literature, where adjuncts can be elided. After that, I claim that not only syntactic and semantic identity conditions but also a discourse-pragmatic condition needs to be satisfied for an adjunct to be deleted. In particular, I suggest, as the discourse-pragmatic condition, that the ellipsis clause should be congruent to 'Question under Discussions' (QuDs, Roberts 1998/2012), which are generated by the antecedent clause and the elliptical clause, by providing a proper answer to the QuDs, and that the QuDs form a discourse tree (d-tree) that starts at a more general superquestion and ends at answers to specific questions relevant to the discourse context (Büring 2003).

The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences between the responses of native Korean and English listeners to voice onset time (VOT) cues when distinguishing word-initial fortis and lenis stops in English. Additionally, this study examined the effects of the place of articulation and the height and backness of the following vowels. The first finding of the study is that the native Korean listeners needed a longer VOT to differentiate fortis from lenis stops. Second, the VOT boundary was the lowest for bilabial stops, while there was no statistically significant difference between alveolar and velar stops. Third, the boundary was found to be the highest for high vowels, the second highest for mid vowels, and lowest for low vowels. Finally, the boundary of high vowels was formed at a greater value than that of low vowels.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the functional load of Korean. To accomplish this research purpose, the study computes the functional loads of phoneme pairs using the change in system entropy from the Korean Corpus of Spontaneous Speech and compares it with the functional load quantified based on the dictionary corpus. The data analysis show that the order of functional loads of the onsets is '/ㄱ/-/ㅈ/, /ㄱ/-/ㄴ/, /ㄱ/-/ㅁ/, … ', that of the nucleus is '/ㅓ/-/ㅡ/, /ㅏ/-/ㅓ/, /ㅗ/-/ㅜ/, …', and that of the coda is '/ㄴ/-/ㅇ/, /ㄴ/-/ㅁ/, /ㄴ/-/ㄹ/, …'. The similarities and differences in the functional loads of the two types of corpora are also discussed. The results of this study reveal the basic and important knowledge of the characteristics of the phonology of spoken Korean.

“Verbs of Creation” (VCs) require an agent, result, patient, and instrument. Its main feature is that the result of an agent's action on the patient is expressed in the accusative case. In this study, Russian VCs are classified into four groups by property of its result: unspecific VCs, VCs of shape, VCs of food, and VCs of depiction. This paper specifies the patient as a material, place, and means according to the lexical meaning of the verb. In particular, VCs of food and shape allow material or place/patient alternation, becoming “Verbs of Transformation.” VCs have a complex event construction that consists of “activity - accomplishment.” Each part of this event structure can be expressed in either the imperfective or perfective. This study considers the perfective the basic form of VCs.