Re: does anyone here also know Korean or have Korean friends?


chance wrote:
"Ray" <raymondaliasapollyon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Does anyone here also know Korean or have Korean friends?
I have a question about the Korean reflexive pronoun caki, but I cannot
find any Korean speaker now to verify some grammaticaity judgments.

Ray


I don't know exactly what your question about
with regard to 'caki' is, but assuming you are asking
what the reflexive pronoun of the scond person is,
I say it is 'chagi chasin' [自己自身], as it is 「自分自身」
in Japanese.

However, as in Japanese, 'chagi chasin',
roughly 'self self' in English, may also mean
'myself' and 'himself or herself', as well as 'yourself'.


Are you a native speaker of Korean or Japanese?

First of all, I want to pave the way for my question by introducing a
fact about English reflexives:
Consider the following:

John hated himself, and so did Tom.

Here, the person who Tom hated could only be Tom himself.


How about the Korean caki in sentences like the above? Must caki refer
to "Tom" in Korean too?

My second question concerns the Korean equivalent of the following
sentence:

John knew that Mary disliked CAKI, and so did Tom.

Here, I've been told that caki can refer to "John", across one clause,
so John knew that Mary disliked John.

The 2nd half of the sentence would be "restored" as "Tom [also] knew
that Mary disliked CAKI". My question is what this CAKI could refer to.
John or only Tom?


I'd appreciate your help.


Ray

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