Minju Kim
List of John Benjamins publications in which Minju Kim is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0257-3784 | E‑ISSN 2212‑9731
2025 Two opposite implicatures of a focus particle: Korean stance markers with focus ya Studies in Language 49:3, pp. 645–681 | Article
Analyzing diachronic and synchronic corpus data and utilizing the theoretical approaches of grammaticalization and intersubjectification, this study investigates the development of two Korean stance markers: the “conceding marker” ha-ki-ya (pro-verb ha ‘do’+nominalizer ki+focus ya) and the… read more
2020 Korean general extenders tunci ha and kena ha ‘or something’: Approximation, hedging, and pejorative stance in cross-linguistic comparison Pragmatics 30:4, pp. 557–585 | Article
Using natural conversation corpora, I demonstrate that the Korean x-tunci ha ‘x-or do’ and x-kena ha ‘x-or do’, which originally list options (e.g., ‘x or y do’) have emerged as independent constructions that can indicate approximation, epistemic uncertainty, tentativeness, and even polite… read more
2009 The intersection of the perfective and imperfective domains: A corpus-based study of the grammaticalization of Korean aspectual markers Studies in Language 33:1, pp. 175–214 | Article
Using diachronic corpus data, this article examines the grammaticalization of three Korean aspectual markers, progressive ‑ko iss‑, resultative ‑e iss‑, and anterior ‑ess‑. It demonstrates that the three Korean aspectual markers emerged from the same source ‑e is(i)‑, which in the 15th C expressed… read more
2008 The Diachronic Development of the Korean Existential Verb ISS- Korean Linguistics 14, pp. 91–111 | Article
Abstract. In the 15th C, the Korean existential verb had three allomorphs, is-, isi-, and si-, while Present Day Korean has one form, iss-. Using diachronic corpus data, the present article examines the historical development of the existential verb stem leading to the current form iss-.… read more