| 초록 |
Jeong, Haegwon. (2023). A linguistic typological view on tense and aspects of korean sign languages. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 31(4), 221-239. Tense is a grammatical category that expresses the temporal position of an event, while aspect is a way to look into the internal temporal composition of an event. In the description of tense and aspect in Korean Sign Language, there is confusion in the use of terms and descriptions of grammar. Therefore, it is necessary that the onomasiological approach to tense and aspects in Korean Sign Language, that is a perspective to analyze from concepts to symbols used in Linguistic Typology. Inflectional elements that appear along the time line can be set as grammaticalized tense expressions in a sign language. The leaning forward is analyzed as the near future tense, and the slow leaning forward is the future in Korean Sign Language. There is neither a perfective aspect that expresses a global view of the event nor an imperfective, so such viewpoint aspects are not useful for distinguishing aspects in Korean Sign Language. On the other hand, from the perspective of phasal aspects, depending on the stages of progression of an event, there are prospective, inchoative, progressive, conclusive, completive, and resultative, which are also found in Korean Sign Language. In terms of tense and aspects in Korean Sign Language, it is analyzed that aspect is being grammaticalized into a more basic grammatical category, and tense is still in the early stages of grammaticalization. This is because the way of viewing temporal phases of events is more iconic and easier to recognize. |
