The aim of this study is to identify the pattern of the delexical constructions and semantic coherence between delexical verbs and nouns. The semantics of the delexical verb constructions is analyzed focusing on do, give, have, make and take retrieved from the spoken texts of the British National Corpus. The result indicates that the forms identical to those of the main verbs are preferred to the derived forms and among the constructions of have and make are preferred among the delexical verbs combined to the same nouns. Five semantic categories, such as sensory, physical, mental, goal-oriented, and result-driven activities are suggested to classify the semantics of the nouns in the constructions.

The aim of this paper is to investigate the phenomenon of a difference in meaning of Tibetan adjectives, based on their relative position. In this process, the paper presents the common aspects of the phenomenon of the Tibetan compound word by discussing Italian noun phrases and compound words. In Tibetan compound words, the category of 'adjective+noun' can only represent the meaning of an abstract concept, while the category of 'noun+adjective' has the additional indicative meaning that refers to a specific object. This is due to the fact that an adjective can have two attributes when it modifies a noun. In Italian, adjectives can be divided into predicative and referential adjectives, based on their attributes. Predicative adjectives can modify nouns both before and after, while referential adjectives can only modify nouns in the latter position. In Italian, according to this phenomenon, 'adjective+noun' has only one meaning in both noun phrases and compound words, while 'noun+adjective' has two meanings. In the Tibetan compound word denoting referential objects among the 'noun+adjective' category, the semantic structure is changed from a second type to first type. In addition, even in the case of compound words which seem to have a referential meaning in the 'adjective+noun' category, that meaning is limited to a simple combination of the meaning of the individual adjectives and nouns. This indicates that the adjectives are still used with a predicative meaning.

This study examined if Pakistani students can clearly pronounce three distinctive nasal constants of the Korean language or not. For the purpose, total 9 high frequent words from the vocal data of speaking exam which includes the nasal stop sounds of 20 Pakistani students were analyzed: 3 words are from one-syllable words which nasal sounds are (안, 꿈, 명), 3 words are from two-syllable words which nasal sounds in the first place are (안과, 담배, 종교) and 3 words are from two-syllable words which nasal sounds in the last place are (공원, 사람, 고향). The result showed that the Pakistani students can recognize and can clearly distinct and pronounce three nasal conflictive elements of Korean language. But, due to the influence of allophone rules of Urdu nasal alphabet □/noon/[n], some Pakistani students produced ㅇ[ŋ] sound with ㄴ[n] and ㅁ[m] sound with ㄴ[n]. Moreover, Pakistani students omitted final constant while uttering Korean sentences due to the non-existence of final constant in Urdu language. Based on the result of this research, I suggested teaching methods of nasal stop sounds for Pakistani students. The result of this paper could be utilized as a basic data for developing the pronunciation education materials or finding the ways of pronunciation education for Pakistani students. Hereafter, I hope that this paper will play a tiny role in developing the language pronunciation education for Pakistani students.

Foreign tourists visiting Korea usually get their information through English Web sites. Thus, English Web sites for tourist attractions are very important for attracting foreign tourists. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the problems of about 1,600 English names of tourist attractions in Jeonbuk Province posted on Jeonbuk Provincial Office's Homepage done by Automatic Translation System, and to suggest an alternative for 10 million tourist era of Jeonbuk province. To do these, this paper i) studies an English translation guideline for public sector translation, the MCST instruction no. 279, enacted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, ii) investigates the problem of English tourist attractions in Jeonbuk Province which are currently posted on Jeonbuk Provincial Office's Homepage, and iii) suggests ways of resolving these problems.

To see how syllable-timed prosody is learned by a native speaker of a language that uses stress-timed prosody, duration and pitch in the L2 Korean speech of L1 English learners are explored. For analysis, 28 learners were divided into low- and high-proficiency groups, based on native Korean-speaking listeners' evaluation of the learners' read Korean speech data. In addition, 12 native speakers of Korean recorded their own Korean speech as a control group and as model speakers. The pairwise variability of 28 adjacent vowels within each accentual phrase was measured in terms of duration and fundamental frequency. The results showed that learners used both pitch (fundamental frequency) variability and duration variability for prominence acquisition, whereas the native speaker controls used only pitch variability. These results suggest the presence of prosodic transfer of contrastive duration for prosodic acquisition of contrastive pitch in adult language learning of syllable-timed prosody.

The aim of this paper is two-fold. The first is to argue against the proposal that the manner-result complementarity espoused by Levin and Rappaport Hovav (2013) hold in Korean. While Levin and Rappaport Hovav have long been claiming that the two semantic components are not lexicalized by a single verb, Beavers and Koontz-Garboden (2017) object that some verbs, such as climb, are found to entail both manner and result information. In line with Beaver and Koontz-Garboden's analysis of climb, it is shown that the Korean verb kwulu 'roll' has both manner and result components in it. The second aim is to argue against the thesis that the notions 'manner' and 'result' play a crucial role in the Korean serial verb construction, and to provide an alternative to the thesis. To this end, it considers a major subset of serial verb constructions in Korean and seeks to identify the semantic properties of the construction by examining the behavior of its constituent verbs, regardless of whether it describes a motion event or not. It proposes a structural constraint on the relation between the two verbs employed in the construction: namely, that the subevent denoted by the first verb serves as a sufficient condition for a necessary condition for the subevent denoted by the second verb.

Prescriptive grammar has been influencing English, especially Present-Day English (PE), for the worse and for the better. For the worse, in some instances, it has gone against accepted usage. However, prescriptive grammar influenced English, especially PE, for the better, in that it has helped establish standard and formal language to express authority, sincerity, and certainty, for a language requires many varieties of registers and dialects. As an example, there is the language of sermons, where serious issues are addressed, such as death, eternal life, authority, and majesty. The registers of government policy announcements and court verdicts also require “prescriptive” expressions. This is not a matter of ideology or social hierarchy, as some misguided linguists charge. Prescriptive grammar just provides standardization, contributing significantly to marking distinctions between dialects and registers.

The positive stripping construction (PSC) in English and Korean is comprised of several fragments (and) NP too/(kuliko) NP[-to] but delivers a full sentential meaning. To account for such a form-meaning mismatch, we examine the similarities and differences in the properties of the PSC between the two languages. Based on the properties we observed, we argue that our Construction-Grammar based analysis under the Direct Interpretation Approach can sufficiently explain the properties of the stripping in the two languages, showing the problems of the Focus Phrase-based analysis under the Movement-and-Ellipsis Approach. Moreover, it is argued that our analysis will lead to a simpler explanation for further stripping data.

This paper presents how to identify the characteristic properties of suicide notes using the analysis methods in forensic linguistics and how to apply the knowledge to the machine learning research. For this purpose, a corpus was compiled with Virginia Woolf's literary works and suicide notes, which contained six texts. Then, each text was analyzed with the LIWC (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count) software. Since the analysis results were complicated, a dimensionality reduction was conducted using a Principal Component Analysis (PCA). In the PCA analysis, it was found that, even though all the texts were written by the same author, the suicide notes were clearly identified from the literary works. The analysis results of LIWC analyses were applied to a machine learning technique (especially a Support Vector Machine; SVM), and the classification accuracy was measured using six real texts and three hypothetical texts. Through the analysis, it was found that the SVM machine identified the suicide notes from the literary works with 100% of accuracy. The current study demonstrates that the linguistic properties of texts can be used to identify the suicides notes from the other types of writings and that they can be used in machine learning research.