수어학과 언어융합연구
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Park, Chongwon. 2024. Metonymy in Korean Copular Constructions. Sign Languages and Linguistics Convergence Research, 1(1), 87-121. This article develops an analysis of the Korean copular construction from a Cognitive Grammar perspective with emphasis on the metonymic type copula. By pointing out that metonymy does not occur untethered, I draw attention to the importance of defining metonymy in a verifiable way. I attempt to identify the locus of metonymy based on the definitive properties laid out in Panther & Thornburg (2007) [Panther, Klaus-Uwe & Linda L. Thornburg. 2007. Metonymy. In Dirk Geeraerts & Hubert Cuyckens (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (pp.236–263)]. I then argue that information structure plays a vital role in the rise of the metonymic meaning; given information tends to induce metonymy more easily than new information because of its relative conceptual salience. It is demonstrated that the metonymic link between the source and the target content is strengthened when the source gives rise to given information, thereby narrowing the conceptual distance between the two content. This narrowed conceptual distance makes the target more accessible from the source; therefore, the locus of metonymy tends to be associated with given information. After illustrating some variations of the metonymic copular construction, I extend my discussion to the specificational pseudo-cleft construction, where the topical subject nominal also tends to undergo a metonymic shift.
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Jeong, Haegwon. 2024. Conceptual Blending and Modality of Korean Sign Language. Sign Languages and Linguistics Convergence Research, 1(1), 1-34. Modality represents the speaker's evaluation of the proposition expressed in a sentence, and modality is classified three basic types into dynamic modality, deontic modality, and epistemic modality. In Korean Sign Language, dynamic modality is expressed as [CAN], and obligation, permission, and prohibition of deontic modality are expressed as [NEED], [BECOME], and [MUST-NOT (not-become)], respectively. The epistemic modality is [RIGHT], [PROBABLY], [ONE-OF-TWO], which represents the speaker’s assessment of the potentiality of a state of affairs. In the process of meaning construction, conceptual blending theory can explain additional emergent meaning by blending of input spaces, and the interpretation of sign language could be explained through a blending of Event Space and Real Space. So an epistemic modal expression in KSL processes two steps of conceptual blending. In the first blend, a proposition is constructed based on Event Space and Real Space, and then this proposition is connected to a positive in two potentiality spaces, and these two positive and negative spaces and an assessment space are mapped into the blended space, which represents the epistemic assessment. Deontic modality goes through a more complex blending process than dynamic modality or epistemic modality, and the blended proposition of the first step is connected to a reality space. Two reality spaces, an assessment space, and an attitude space contribute to the speaker’s decision to express an obligation or permission in the second step.
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Kim, Jongbok. 2024. Signㅡbased Construction Grammar and an Implication for the Study of Sign Languages. Sign Languages and Linguistics Convergence Research, 1(1), 35-57. This paper reviews a constructionist view of morphology and syntax that takes language as a network of form-meaning pairs or constructions. The view regards the grammar as a system of constraints governing the relation between form and meaning, resorting to no transformational or derivational operations within grammar other than constraints. Each piece of a grammatical structure is thus licensed by some constructions just as each node in a well-formed context-free tree structure is licensed by some grammar rules. The constructionist view could offer a viable way for the study of sign languages that convey linguistic information not simply via time dimension. but also via width, length and breadth dimension
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Park, Myung-Kwan. 2024. Grammatical Transfer in L2 Neural Language Models. Sign Languages and Linguistics Convergence Research, 1(1), 58-86. This study examines the impacts of initial grammatical knowledge from the first language (English) on the acquisition of grammatical structures in the second language (Korean) by neural language models (NLMs). To this end, we employ the standard experimental procedure in the rapidly-evolving field of natural language processing (NLP) that encompasses (i) pre-training Transformer-based GPT-2 NLMs on either Korean or English datasets, (ii) further fine-tuning them using a targeted set of Korean data as either the first or the second language, and (iii) assessing their performances using the K-BLiMP test data while analyzing their grammatical generalization capabilities. The findings in this study indicate that negative transfer effects arise in L2 NLMs when comparing models that learn Korean as the second language with those that learn Korean as the first language. Additionally, during the progression of training, the NLMs learning the second language attained the acquisition of its grammatical features, but to different degrees depending on the construction types tested. This study enhances our understanding of potential grammatical difficulties that may occur due to the interference from the first language when NLMs learn Korean as the second language
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Brdar, Mario & Rita, Brdar-Szabó. 2024. On cross-linguistic/cultural false friends in verbo-gestural communication: interlingual “homonyms” and “synonyms”. Sign Languages and Linguistics Convergence Research, 1(1), 122-160. The focus of this article is an understudied phenomenon as a factor that may diminish mutual intelligibility and also make translation across sign languages (i.e., trans-signing) more difficult. While the phenomenon of translator’s false friends has been widely studied in spoken and written language, it has not yet been paid due attention in teaching and learning of a foreign sign language, or in translation studies on sign languages, or simply in cross-sign-linguistic communication. We demonstrate in this article the existence of such false friends, i.e., putative interlingual synonyms that turn out to be interlingual homonyms. We also document the role of metonymy in their coming into existence.