Studies in Korean Syntax and Semantics by Susumu Kuno with Young-Joo Kim, Soo-Yeon Kim, Young-Key Kim-Renaud, Ik-Hwan Lee, Ken-Ichi Takami,

and John B. Whitman

 

Edited by Young-Key Kim-Renaud and John B. Whitman.

 

International Circle of Korean Linguistics / Seoul: Pagijong Press

2004. Pp. xxi + 282. US$16, W15,000 (paper).

 

gThe nine articles on Korean syntax and semantics collected in this volume showcase Kunofs contribution to Korean linguistics. These articles are testimony to Susumu Kunofs boundless inventiveness, powers of observation, and sensitivity to language data.h – from the Introduction.

 

(g구노 스스무 교수가 다른 교수들과 공저하거나 혼자 한국 구문론과 의미론h) 저명한 일본 엉학자 구노 교수가 일생 한국어의 구문론적 의미론적 분석으로, 학자가 한국 어에 관한 아홉개의 논문을 김영기와 Cornell대학의 John B. Whitman  교수가 구노 선생의 은퇴기념으로 단행본으로 소개한 것이다. 다음 손호민의 서평에서 보다시피, 책은 구노 교수의 기능문법적인 분석이 여러 한국어의 언어현상을 설명하는데 도움이 되는 것을 보여주고 그의 한국언어학에의 깊고 광범위한 공헌을 보여주고 있으며 후학에 자극과 영감을 주는 책이 것이다.

 

gTaking up many thought-provoking issues that have not been previously touched on or have been incompletely studied, the authors endeavor to present insightful solutions. Moreover, the book is an important contribution to the comparative syntax of Korean and Japanese. Some papers are explicitly so titled; in others, which only make reference to parallel cases in Japanese, it is apparent that many insights have derived from Kunofs in-depth knowledge of, and research into, Japanese syntax and semantics. Furthermore, all analyses and arguments in the chapters are essentially oriented in line with Kunofs functional linguistics, reflecting the authorsf keen observations and analyses of detailed functional aspects of linguistic data. The authorsf syntactic formalisms also reflect such functionally based claims and generalizations.h--Ho-min Sohn, Korean Linguistics, Vol. 13, 2006