If I'm granted a research fund in conducting linguistic study, I would want to start by analyzing the structural components in Korean including morphemes, syntax, words and sentence structures and so on. The reason why is that after analyzing and documenting the traits of elements of Korean, the foundation is laid. The ultimate goal of the study is to learn the origin of this language because I want to know how, in the past, did people, more specifically human brains, developed this language. As i mentioned in my last learning journal, I find this subject matter really intriguing while it still remains a mystery. Moreover, I want to study the variations in Korean, meaning that I want to learn more about Korean dialects as well and how they develop and different from the "official Korean."
Additionally, I would want to compare different languages. For example, I want to compare Korean with Chinese because they both have similarities and differences. The differences include different sentence structure and grammar while the similarities come from having the counting system from Chinese. Chinese has 4 tones plus a neutral tone. Korean has a phonetic script with alphabets while Chinese has a logographic script where every word is written as one or more Chinese characters, thus making it more complex to learn to read as well as write. If I'm able to accomplish this task, our understanding of language, and more importantly human brain, will be improved.
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