Chongwon Park

orcid.org/0000-0003-4640-0926

List of John Benjamins publications in which Chongwon Park is involved.

Journal

Edited by Lucien Brown

ISSN 0257-3784 | E‑ISSN 2212‑9731

Book series

Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use

Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg

ISSN 1387-6724

Title

Reference Point and Case: A Cognitive Grammar exploration of Korean

Chongwon Park

This monograph answers the rarely discussed questions of why complicated grammatical case phenomena exist in Korean and what the connection is between the case forms and their functions. The author argues that the case forms in Korean reflect patterns of the human cognitive process. While this… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 68] 2019. xx, 264 pp.

Articles (9) | Order by:

Park, Chongwon and Bo Kyoung Kim 2025 Clause final grounding and metonymy in Korean indirect requests Korean Linguistics 21:2, pp. 135–168 | Article

This article proposes a Cognitive Grammar account of Korean conventional indirect requests and connective behavior. Sentence-ending particles (SEPs) are analyzed as grounding morphology that links clausal content to the speaker–addressee Ground. Clause type provides a default access path to a… read more

Park, Chongwon, Jaehoon Yeon and Jong-Bok Kim 2025 Setting subject and the inferential cleft construction in Korean Beyond Corpus Data — Complementary and Alternative Methods in Cognitive Linguistics, Granvik, Anton, Veera Hatakka, Olli O. Silvennoinen, Riku Erkkilä and Eveliina Mäntylä (eds.), pp. 634–665 | Article

This article aims to develop a cognitive-functional analysis of the Korean inferential cleft construction (ICC) by identifying two motivations. It is demonstrated that the ICC must be understood as a mechanism to improve coherence and relevance in the text; it is first and foremost motivated to… read more

Park, Chongwon and Jaehoon Yeon 2024 Notes on word order variation in Korean Pragmatics 34:4, pp. 588–614 | Article

This article aims to develop an analysis of scrambling or word order variation in Korean from a pragmatic/cognitive perspective. Although extensive research has been carried out on this issue, most extant research attempts to provide analyses of the phenomenon by identifying grammatical features… read more

Park, Chongwon and Jaehoon Yeon 2023 The Factive, IHRC, and Cleft constructions in Korean Applying Embodied Cognition and Cognitive Linguistics to language teaching, Della Putta, Paolo and Ferran Suñer (eds.), pp. 140–177 | Article

This article aims to develop a Cognitive Grammar (CG) analysis of three grammatical constructions in Korean, all of which employ the bound noun kes. The data under examination includes the Factive, Internally Headed Relative Clause (IHRC), and Cleft constructions. We propose a uniform treatment… read more

Park, Chongwon 2014 The ambiguity and alternative construals of the [X-ko iss-ta] construction in Korean Korean Linguistics 16:1, pp. 18–50 | Article

This article analyzes the Korean [X-ko iss-ta] construction from the perspective of construal-based semantics, where the speaker’s choice and the grammatical context play an important role. The [X-ko iss-ta] construction exhibits ambiguity between the Progressive and the Resultant meanings. I… read more

Park, Chongwon 2014 Reference-point and blending in Korean non-nominative subject constructions Studies in Language 38:4, pp. 717–751 | Article

This article examines three types of Korean constructions: case stacking and two types of non-nominative subject constructions. Relying on an independently established descriptive construct known as reference-point, I argue that the complex forms of these constructions reflect their meanings and… read more

Park, Chongwon 2013 Setting and location: Case-marked adverbials in Korean Constructions and Frames 5:2, pp. 192–224 | Article

This article provides an analysis of Korean adverbial case constructions from a Cognitive Grammar viewpoint. I argue that nominative-marked adverbials are the result of the setting-subject construal of the adverbial. Accusative-marked adverbials, then, are construed as a location, which is part of… read more

Park, Chongwon 2013 Metonymy in grammar: Korean multiple object constructions Functions of Language 20:1, pp. 31–63 | Article

This article focuses on the conceptual structures of Korean Multiple Object Constructions (MOCs), which exhibit various types of meanings. I argue that these various meanings are systematically explained when we adopt the notion of reference point. I claim that the accusative-marked nominals in the… read more

Park, Chongwon 2010 (Inter)subjectification and Korean honorifics Journal of Historical Pragmatics 11:1, pp. 122–147 | Article

The traditional diachronic treatment of the Korean honorific marker LsupL is that LsupL was originally used as a referent honorific marker from the subject’s point of view. It then underwent changes to become a speaker-addressee-oriented (S-A) marker. Diverging from this traditional approach, I… read more