어순은 언제 왜 바뀔까 — 한국어 어순 변이 유형과 정보구조

• Published in: 언어학 no. 93; pp. 3 - 29
• Main Authors: 연재훈(Jaehoon Yeon), 박종원(Chongwon Park)
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Korean
• Published: 사단법인 한국언어학회 01.08.2022
• Subjects: 언어학; Korean word-order variation; floated quantifiers; right-dislocation; backmasking; maxim flouting; topic; focus; information structure; add-on; juxtaposition
• ISSN: 1225-7494; 2508-4429
• DOI: 10.17290/jlsk.2022..93.3

This paper aims to propose an analysis of scrambling or word order variation in Korean from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective. Despite the abundance of research on this issue, most extant research attempts to provide analyses of the constraints by identifying grammatical features posited for syntactic operations. We demonstrate that word order variation needs to be understood with respect to its communicative function; it is motivated by the speaker’s intention to convey intended information more effectively. It is emphasized that the word order variation we observed is motivated cognitively and pragmatically. We identified the following six strategies: juxtaposition, backmasking, add-on, right-dislocation, maxim-flouting, and floated-quantifiers(FQs). The overarching theme of these strategies concerns how the interlocutors process new and old information. As for FQs, we demonstrated that many examples found in the previous research might be judged differently under a different context. To understand the association between information structure and word order variation should be an essential task for the analysis of word order variation. We hope our findings inspire the researchers who confine their explorations mainly to the sentence level. KCI Citation Count: 0