— Overview
Connectives in Korean, the writer says, are used in many ways, and there are a great many of them. Recent introductory books on Korean education describe their functions and uses in more detail, and also explain the grammatical constraints that apply. The body of the paper takes up the connective -neurago (also written -(ha)neurago). In general, it cannot combine with a past tense. That is not invariably so, the writer adds, but the form is generally used when a speaker is offering an excuse.
The same holds when it is used not for a cause-and-effect link but for a purpose. A sentence in which the preceding clause is in the past is treated as an incorrect use of -neurago. In other words, the tense constraint is that the preceding clause should always be in the present. The meaning given here is that of a connective used to explain a later situation together with an action that came before it. Two illustrations are offered: staying up late at study and then rising late the next morning, and asking someone if they know how hard it was to look for a thing.
Questions of a subject constraint are divided, in the paper, into whether the subjects of the preceding and following clauses match, and what person each subject is. The introduction also says the writer means to test, with made-up examples, whether there are constraints on the predicate, on the type of sentence, and on negation. Those later tests are not filled out in the extract used here, and the page stays with the tense rule, the framing of the subject question, the meaning, and the two illustrations.
References dated in the material include Yoshimoto Hajime (2007) and Jin Ga-ri (2013). The same Korean report, at fuller length, is on CampusDown.
— Contents and key concepts
A present tense before the link
Connectives in Korean, the writer says, are used in many ways, and there are a great many of them. Recent introductory books on Korean education describe their functions and uses in more detail, and also explain the grammatical constraints that apply. The body of the paper takes up the connective -neurago. In general, it cannot combine with a past tense. That is not invariably so, the writer adds, but the form is generally used when a speaker is offering an excuse. The same holds when it is used not for a cause-and-effect link but for a purpose.
A sentence in which the preceding clause is in the past is treated as an incorrect use of -neurago. In other words, the tense constraint is that the preceding clause should always be in the present. The meaning given here is that of a connective used to explain a later situation together with an action that came before it. Two illustrations are offered: staying up late at study and then rising late the next morning, and asking someone if they know how hard it was to look for a thing.
A subject question, and what stays open
Questions of a subject constraint are divided, in the paper, into whether the subjects of the preceding and following clauses match, and what person each subject is. The introduction also says the writer means to test, with made-up examples, whether there are constraints on the predicate, on the type of sentence, and on negation. Those later tests are not filled out in the extract used here, and the page stays with the tense rule, the framing of the subject question, the meaning, and the two illustrations. References dated in the material include Yoshimoto Hajime (2007) and Jin Ga-ri (2013). The same Korean report, at fuller length, is on CampusDown.
Source
- An account of the Korean connective -neurago, with a tense constraint that the preceding clause stay in the present, often in an excuse or a purpose, and with the subject question only framed. References dated 2007 and 2013.
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