
Foundational Korean: Grammar Basics
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Structure (구조) | ||
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![]() DefinitionStructure refer to sentence-level comprehension of language, including how the arrangement of words within sentences impacts the meaning. Language structure understanding helps speakres interpret the meaning of complete sentences. | ||
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![]() DefinitionTraditionally the subject is the word or phrase which controls the verb in a clause, and in certain languages, where the morphology also agrees by number/subject and/or gender. | ||
Subject (주제설) | ||
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![]() DefinitionTraditionally the subject is the word or phrase which controls the verb in a clause, and in certain languages, where the morphology also agrees by number/subject and/or gender. | ||
Subordinate Clauses | ||
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![]() DefinitionA subordinate clause, dependent clause or embedded clause is a clause that is embedded within a complex sentence. For instance, in the English sentence "I know that Bette is a dolphin", the clause "that Bette is a dolphin" occurs as the complement of the verb "know" rather than as a freestanding sentence. | ||
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![]() DefinitionA suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns, adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carry grammatical information or lexical information | ||
Superordinate Clauses | ||
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![]() Definitionhe terms subordinate and superordinate are relative terms. They describe the relationship between clauses in what is called the Clause Hierarchy - for example - [It was raining] when [I left home]. | ||
Syntax (통사론) | ||
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![]() DefinitionIn linguistics, syntax is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. | ||
Synthetic Languages | ||
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![]() DefinitionA synthetic language uses inflection or agglutination to express syntactic relationships within a sentence. Inflection is the addition of morphemes to a root word that assigns grammatical property to that word, while agglutination is the combination of two or more morphemes into one word | ||
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Topic | ||
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![]() DefinitionIn linguistics, the topic, or theme, of a sentence is what is being talked about, and the comment is what is being said about the topic. This division into old vs. new content is called information structure. In Korean, the particles 은/는 will mark the topic of the sentence. | ||