국어 항진명제의 통사유형과 의미

A Study on the Syntactic Patterns and Meanings of Korean Tautology

This paper aims to describe syntactic patterns and meanings of tautology in Korean. It has been explained tautology by focusing upon two essential aspects. The first aspect is related to philosophical and classic semantic views of tautology focused on logic and meanings. The second is related to viewpoints associated with radical pragmatics, radical semantics and non-radicals. This paper takes radical semantic position. Furthermore, this paper classifies tautological utterances of Korean into three syntactic patterns; equatives, conditionals and adverb clauses to express time. Equatives are used in sentences following this format ('X nun X', 'X ga X', 'X mo X', 'X nun X, Y nun Y'), conditionals in this format ('p (u)myen p', 'p ramyen p', 'p eya p', 'p (i)myen p') and adverb clauses to express time in this format ('p ttay p'). Thus, this paper shows that tautological utterances of Korean have certain language-specific syntactic constructions that consistently contribute to the meaning of tautology.