The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics

The 'Korean wave' in music and film and Korea's rise to become the twelfth economic power in the world have boosted the world-wide popularity of Korean language study. The linguistic study of Korean, with its rich syntactic and phonological structure, complex writing system, and unique socio-historical context, is now a rapidly growing research area. Contributions from internationally renowned experts on the language provide a state-of-the-art overview of key current research in Korean language and linguistics. Chapters are divided into five thematic areas: phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, semantics and pragmatics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics, and language pedagogy. The Handbook includes cross-linguistic data to illuminate the features of Korean, and examples in Korean script, making it suitable for advanced students and researchers with or without prior knowledge of Korean linguistics. It is an essential resource for students and researchers wishing to explore the exciting and rapidly moving field of Korean linguistics.

「韓流」在音樂和電影領域的影響，以及韓國成為世界第十二大經濟強國，推動了全球對韓語學習的普及。韓語的語言學研究，擁有豐富的句法和音韻結構、複雜的書寫系統以及獨特的社會歷史背景，現在是一個快速發展的研究領域。國際知名語言學專家的貢獻提供了韓語語言學研究的最新概述。章節分為五個主題領域：音韻學、形態學和句法學、語義學和語用學、社會語言學和心理語言學、以及語言教學法。本手冊包含跨語言的數據，以闡明韓語的特點，並提供韓文示例，適合具有或沒有韓語語言學先備知識的高級學生和研究人員使用。對於希望探索令人興奮且快速發展的韓語語言學領域的學生和研究人員來說，這是一個必不可少的資源。