Publications [#227655] of Hae-Young Kim

Papers Published

1. Lee, E; Kim, H-Y, On cross-linguistic variations in imperfective aspect: the case of L2 Korean, Language Learning, vol. 57 no. 4 (2007), pp. 651-685, WILEY [doi] .
   (last updated on 2026/01/18)

   Abstract:
   This paper examines the acquisition of Korean imperfective markers, the progressive -ko iss- and the resultative -a iss-, with a view to understanding how tense/aspect morphology expands beyond prototype associations with inherent aspects of the verbs. We hypothesized that -a iss- will develop later than -ko iss-, but that the development of -a iss- will precede or coincide with the expansion of -ko iss- marking for result state meaning. Cross-sectional data were collected from 120 L1 English learners of L2 Korean using a sentence interpretation task and a guided picture description task. The results support our hypothesized acquisition route of imperfective markers, establishing dynamic durativity as the prototypical meaning of the Korean imperfective -ko iss- and suggesting individual variance in expanding the prototype.