Search: Start Page ➙ Language: Korean, South (kor) Alternative Names  Hanguohua, Hanguk Mal Family/Group  language isolate Area  Eurasia General Data  • spoken in Korea, South; also in North Korea, northeast China and some parts of Russia Typological Information  • agglutinating • no prefixation (reduplication is an exception) • SOV (relatively free by scramling) Reduplication Form-Function  • full: pluralization, diminution, lexical enrichment • partial: lexical enrichment Relationship Form-Function  various forms - various functions Reduplication System  • full, partial prefixing/suffixing, internal CV-reduplication • internal CV-reduplication has been alternatively analyzed as suffixal reduplication • template for partial reduplication is CVC (can be modified by dissimilation of consonant clusters) • reduplication is robust in sound symbolic vocabulary • presence of partial prefixing reduplication may be due to compound reduction Comments  • also classified as Altaic (disputed by some scholars) Forms  Select Valueσ σσ CV CVC reduplicant with fixed segments word   Functions  Select Valuediminution lexical enrichment pluralization Patterns  Select Valuefull partial Semantics  Select Valuediminuity other plurality   Word Classes  Select Value0 — adjective/adverb adjective/adverb — adjective/adverb noun — adjective/adverb noun — noun   All Examples  ⊟ References Kim, Hyung-Soo 2007. gdr Questionnaire on Reduplication (South Korean)  Kim, Hyung-Soo 2003. "A New Look at Partial Reduplication in Korean". In Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 9/2: 353-380  Lee, Iksop, S. R. Ramsey 2000. The Korean Language. New York: State University of New York Press   1 of 2       Terminology    Glossary    Field Descriptions

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