On Crosslinguistic Variations in Imperfective Aspect: The Case of L2 Korean

Abstract

This article examines the acquisition of Korean imperfective markers, the progressive ‐ko iss‐ and the resultative ‐a iss‐, with a view to understanding how tense/aspect morphology expands beyond prototype associations with inherent aspects of the verbs. We hypothesized that ‐a iss‐ will develop later than ‐ko iss‐, but that the development of ‐a iss‐ will precede or coincide with the expansion of ‐ko iss‐ marking for result state meaning. Cross‐sectional data were collected from 120 learners of second language Korean using a sentence interpretation task and a guided picture description task. The results support our hypothesized acquisition route of imperfective markers, establishing dynamic durativity as the prototypical meaning of the Korean imperfective ‐ko iss‐ and suggesting individual variation in expanding the prototype.

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