ABSTRACT

English is a subject-verb-object (SVO) language (e.g., Andrew-studiesKorean). However, Korean is a subject-object-verb (SOV) language (e.g., 㞺✲⮮ṖG䞲ῃ㠊⯒GὋ⿖䟊㣪 “Andrew-Korean-studies”). In Korean, verbs and adjectives appear at the end of the sentence. All other elements such as nouns (e.g., subject and/or object), adverbs, and numbers, appear before verbs and/or adjectives. In addition, modifiers (e.g., adverbs, demonstratives, and relative clauses) appear before the modified words.