한국어 호격어 연구사: 현황과 전망

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This article presents a chronological review of some previous studies of vocatives in Korean and touches upon future directions for research in the constructions at hand. Prior to the 1980s, it was common for research from the traditional perspective to be conducted as part of research on independent words that mainly include exclamations. And since 1990’s, socio-linguistic approaches to the constructions extend themselves into a variety of research topics: on prosodic structure of vocatives, on regional dialects, on younger generation’s vulgarism, and more. Recent studies examine the syntactic status of vocatives and their agreement relationships with sentence-final particles. They further explore the vocative constructions as so-called main clause phenomenon whereby the vocative is unembeddable, i.e., it can only appear in the main clause. This leads to more dynamic further research on the syntax-pragmatics interface. The neo-performative analysis postulates Speech Act Phrase (SAP), in which the discourse participants such as speaker and addressee are encoded in the syntactic tree above the main clause CP. This extends into another related topic: along with vocatives, where other independent elements such as topics and interjections would occupy in the clausal structure. The article concludes itself, by presenting a clear summary of a wide range of research topics on vocatives.

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