Korean : An Essential Grammar (Routledge Essential Grammars)

DESCRIPTION DE L'OUVRAGE OFFERTE PAR L'ÉDITEUR (en anglais) :

Korean: An Essential Grammar is a concise and convenient guide to the basic grammatical structure of standard Korean. Presenting a fresh and accessible description of the language, this engaging Grammar uses clear, jargon-free explanations and sets out the complexities of Korean in short, readable sections.

Key features include:

• clear explanations of grammatical terms
• frequent use of authentic examples
• the Korean alphabet used alongside McCune-Reischauer romanization system
• a full glossary of explanations.

CONTENTS

Preface

List of Abbreviations and Notations Glossary

0. Introduction Korean and its speakers

1. Writing system

1.1. History
1.2. Inventor
1.3. Romanization

2. Pronunciation

2.1. The Syllable
2.2. Consonants
2.3. Vowels
2.4. Intonation

3. Sentence

3.1. The elements of a simple sentence (3.1.1. Subject 3.1.2. Object 3.1.2. Predicate)
3.2. Sentence patterns
3.3. Basic word order

4. Words

4.1. Types of vocabulary
4.2. Expanding words

5. Verbs

5.1. Action verbs
5.2. Descriptive verbs
5.3. Two kinds of ‘be’
5.4. Making new verbs
5.5. Marking time and aspect
5.6. Honorification (5.6.1. Subject honorification 5.6.2. Addressee honorification 5.6.3. Reference honorification)
5.7. Causatives and passives

6. Nouns, pronouns, classifiers, noun phrases

6.1. Proper and common nouns
6.2. Pronouns
6.3. Numerals and numeral classifiers
6.4. Making new nouns
6.5. Making noun phrases
6.6. Noun compounds
6.7. Word order in noun phrases
6.8. Case marking

7. Modifiers

7.1 Adverbs
7.2 Noun modifiers
7.3 Deictics

8. Mimetic words

8.1. Reduplication
8.2. Vowel

9. Negation

9.1. Short-form
9.2. Long-form

10. Expanded sentences

10.1. Compound sentences
10.2. Complex sentences

11. Casual speech

12. Linguistic protocol

12.1. Choosing the appropriate speech form
12.2. Honorific readjustments and politeness strategies
12.3. Language, ideology, and society

Glossary of terms with explanations

List of particles, suffixes, and sentential endings

Further reading