
- 550 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar is a reference to Korean grammar, and presents a thorough overview of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use in modern Korean.
The book moves from the alphabet and pronunciation through morphology and word classes to a detailed analysis of sentence structures and semantic features such as aspect, tense, speech styles and negation.
Updated and revised, this new edition includes lively descriptions of Korean grammar, taking into account the latest research in Korean linguistics. More lower-frequency grammar patterns have been added, and extra examples have been included throughout the text.
The unrivalled depth and range of this updated edition of Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar makes it an essential reference source on the Korean language.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Chapter 1 Introduction to the Korean Language
- Chapter 2 Nouns, nominal forms, pronouns and numbers
- Chapter 3 Particles
- Chapter 4 Verbs
- Chapter 5 Auxiliary (support) verbs
- Chapter 6 Honorifics
- Chapter 7 Clausal connectives
- Chapter 8 Modifiers
- Chapter 9 Sentence endings
- Chapter 10 Quotations
- Chapter 11 Other word classes
- Glossary of linguistic terms
- Related readings and bibliography
- Index of grammatical constructions (Korean)
- Index of translation equivalents (English)
- General index