English and Korean in Contrast

Preface xiii
 
Abbreviations xv
 
1 Linguistic Differences: Where Do They Come From? 1
 
1.1 Linguistic Differences 1
 
1.2 Cultural Differences 3
 
1.3 Why Contrastive Analyses? 5
 
1.4 What This Book Is About 6
 
Exercises 7
 
2 Sounds and Writing Systems: How to Speak and Write 9
 
2.1 Introduction 9
 
2.2 English Sound Systems 10
 
2.2.1 English Consonants 10
 
2.2.2 English Vowels 12
 
2.3 Korean Hangul Alphabet and Romanization 13
 
2.4 Korean Sound Systems 15
 
2.4.1 Korean Consonants 15
 
2.4.2 Korean Vowels 17
 
2.5 Syllable Structures 18
 
2.5.1 English Syllable Structures 18
 
2.5.2 Korean Syllable Structures 20
 
2.6 Suprasegmental Features 21
 
2.6.1 English Suprasegmental Features 21
 
2.6.2 Korean Suprasegmental Features 22
 
2.7 Contrastive Notes 23
 
2.7.1 Consonants 23
 
2.7.2 Different Vowel Sets 24
 
2.7.3 Syllable and Consonant Clusters 24
 
2.7.4 Stress vs. Nonstress 25
 
2.8 Conclusion 25
 
Exercises 26
 
3 Words: Where Every Sentence Begins 29
 
3.1 Introduction 29
 
3.2 English Parts of Speech 29
 
3.2.1 Nouns 30
 
3.2.2 Verbs: Main and Auxiliary 30
 
3.2.3 Adjectives 32
 
3.2.4 Adverbs 32
 
3.2.5 Determiners 33
 
3.2.6 Prepositions 33
 
3.2.7 Particles 34
 
3.2.8 Conjunctions 35
 
3.2.9 Complementizers 36
 
3.3 Korean Parts of Speech 37
 
3.3.1 Nominals 37
 
3.3.2 Adnominals 41
 
3.3.3 Verbals: Adjective and Verb Together 42
 
3.3.4 Adverbials 46
 
3.4 Expanding Verbals and Nominals 47
 
3.4.1 Verbal and Nominal Derivations and Inflections in English 47
 
3.4.2 Verbal Inflections in Korean 48
 
3.4.3 Nominal Expansion in Korean 52
 
3.5 Contrastive Notes 53
 
3.5.1 Different Sets of

JONG-BOK KIM is Professor in the Department of English Linguistics and Literature at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. His publications include Syntactic Constructions in English, English Syntax: An Introduction, The Syntactic Structure of Korean: A Construction Grammar Perspective, and numerous papers in top-tier domestic and international journals. He is also an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award Winner and a Distinguished Research Fellow of National Research Foundation of Korea.