Timeline for Absence of subject marker?
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| Dec 13, 2020 at 18:20 | history | edited | Нет войне | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 13, 2020 at 18:19 | comment | added | Нет войне | @swrutra yes, trying to draw analogies between English and Korean can be tricky - the ideas don't always 'map' 1:1. In a sense I guess 많다 is an adjective because it describes, but as it doesn't work grammatically like an English adjective, I (as an English speaker) prefer to think of it as a 'descriptive verb' or 'adjectival verb'. Verbs are even more important in Korean than English as often you only need a verb and nothing else - if I say '많아요', that might be all I need to say to convey 'that's a lot', 'there are many', etc. | |
| Dec 13, 2020 at 15:28 | comment | added | swrutra | Your answer has helped me a lot! Even though I was just looking for the subject marker, it was very enlightening to know that 많다 is actually a verb and not an adjective. The same way that the descriptive verb 없다 conveys the compound concept "not existing" with no need for a negating word, since the verb itself already "denies" itself. It's so sad that many textbooks assume that the reader is not smart enough to tune to a new paradigm, and as such they are full of analogies with western grammar, distorting the true morphology of the words. How come a textbook tells that 많다 is an adjective! | |
| Dec 13, 2020 at 15:19 | vote | accept | swrutra | ||
| Dec 13, 2020 at 10:33 | history | answered | Нет войне | CC BY-SA 4.0 |