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On Crosslinguistic Variations in Imperfective Aspect: The Case of L2 Korean
Author(s) -
Lee EunHee,
Kim HaeYoung
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
language learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.882
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1467-9922
pISSN - 0023-8333
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2007.00431.x
Subject(s) - resultative , variation (astronomy) , linguistics , psychology , meaning (existential) , task (project management) , sentence , second language acquisition , morpheme , interpretation (philosophy) , verb , philosophy , physics , management , astrophysics , economics , psychotherapist
This article examines the acquisition of Korean imperfective markers, the progressive ‐ ko iss ‐ and the resultative ‐ a iss ‐, with a view to understanding how tense/aspect morphology expands beyond prototype associations with inherent aspects of the verbs. We hypothesized that ‐ a iss ‐ will develop later than ‐ ko iss ‐, but that the development of ‐a iss ‐ will precede or coincide with the expansion of ‐ ko iss ‐ marking for result state meaning. Cross‐sectional data were collected from 120 learners of second language Korean using a sentence interpretation task and a guided picture description task. The results support our hypothesized acquisition route of imperfective markers, establishing dynamic durativity as the prototypical meaning of the Korean imperfective ‐ ko iss ‐ and suggesting individual variation in expanding the prototype.