Syntactic structural difference : Korean and English

소개글

이 자료는 통사론의 관점에서 한국어와 영어의 구조적인 차이점을 밝히기 위해 작성한 페이퍼이다.

저자는 한국인이 영어를 학습할 때 어려움을 느끼는 이유는 두 언어간의 통사론적 구조의 차이점으로 부터 발생한다고 가정하고 일본어와의 비교를 통해 그 차이점을 부각시키려 한다.

관련된 수업으로는 통사론 구조, 통사론 연구, 통사론 분석 등 이 되겠다.

목차

1. Abstract
2. Introduction
3. English syntactic structures
4. Structural difference between English and Korean
5. Similarities of Japanese and Korean
6. Discussion
7. Conclusion

본문내용

This paper aims to understand the phenomenon that Korean English learners face more difficulty in learning English than learning Japanese. In order to understand this comparative difference, this paper analyzes syntactic structures of English, Korean, and Japanese. The sentence structure of English consists of S-V-O, while Korean has S-O-V structures. This structural difference is the main reason that Koreans have difficulty acquiring English as a second language. On the other hand, structural similarities between Korean and Japanese allow Koreans to learn Japanese with relative ease.

<중 략>

In (a), (b), and (c), Korean indicates the SOV structure. In addition, (d) constructs the OSV structure. From the analysis of two sentences Homer is chasing Marge and Homer studied syntax in the library, it is proved that Korean sentence structures form SOV and OSV. This result shows that Korean verbs are always posited at the end of sentences, and it suggests the explicit structural difference between Korean and English.

참고 자료

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