SEMELHANÇAS E DISCREPÂNCIAS ENTRE AS PARTÍCULAS MARCADORAS DE TÓPICO E SUJEITO NA LÍNGUA JAPONESA E NA LÍNGUA COREANA

Abstract

The present research, following a functional typological approach and based on Li and Thompson (1976), aims to list and scrutinize the similarities between the topic and subject marking particles in the Japanese language and the Korean language. The topic particles have the function of topicalizing an element in the sentence, most of which this element will be at the beginning of the sentence and is known by both speaker and interlocutor. The subject particle has the function of marking the subject of the sentence, but differing from the topic, the subject brings a new piece of information. The following data presented were taken from Korean and Japanese descriptive grammars. The results show that the functions of the topic and subject marker particles in both languages are very similar, but there are still slight differences.