Acquisition du passé en coréen langue maternelle
Résumé
In this paper, we establish a correlation between the temporal readings of the Korean verbal suffix ‘-ess’ and the aspectual properties of the predicate with which it occurs : the proposal is that ‘-ess’ expresses the anteriority relative to reference time (Ref-T: the utterance time in simple sentences, the matrix event time in embedded clauses) with atelic predicates, whereas it expresses the simultaneity of result state with telic predicates. We discuss the results of a pilot protocol designed to investigate the acquisition of ‘-ess’ on the basis of this correlation by young children (6;3-7;10) learning Korean as their first language. Our results are finding an evidence concerning the interpretation of ‘-ess’.