International Project

The Ministry of Education of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea: International Project: 2020S1A5A2A03043203 (NRF no.) and 20201179 (CAU e-tera no.)

From Fear to Grammar: Grammaticalization of Apprehensionals from crosslinguistic and typological perspectives

It has been observed that many languages have grammatical means of signalling fear, largely known as Apprehensionals, with two fundamental concepts involved, i.e. high probability and undesirability. This corpus-based project is a collaborative work on diverse aspects of grammaticalization of Apprehensionals that occur in Korean, English, German, and Bulgarian, focusing on their source constructions, developmental processes, their establishment as grammatical forms, and their synchronic distributive patterns.

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Sunhee Yae (Chung-Ang University, Korea)

Co-Investigator: Prof. Dr. Tania Kouteva-Kuteva (Heinrich-Heine University, Germany/SOAS, University of London, UK)

Co-Investigator: Prof. Dr. Seongha Rhee (Hankuk University, Korea)

Funding Period: 2020 -2022