Multiple Marking of Evidentials in Korean

Jaemog Song

doi:10.21049/ccs.2011.22..355

@article{ART001542467},
author={Jaemog Song},
title={Multiple Marking of Evidentials in Korean},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2011},
volume={22},
pages={355-375},
doi={10.21049/ccs.2011.22..355}

TY - JOUR
AU - Jaemog Song
TI - Multiple Marking of Evidentials in Korean
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2011
VL - 22
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 355
EP - 375
SN - 1598-0685
AB - This paper investigates multiple marking of evidentials in Korean. Korean has 4 evidential markers: Present Sensory -ney, Past Sensory -te-, Inference -keyss-, Reported -ay. Korean allows evidential marked more than once in the same clause. Not all the possible combinations of evidential markers are, however, observed in Korean. Only five combinations of evidential markers are allowed: Inference followed by Past Sensory (-keysste-), Inference followed by Present Sensory (-keyssney), Past Sensory followed by Reported (-teray), Inference followed by Reported (-keysstay), Inference followed by Past Sensory and Reported (-keyssteray). Multiple making of evidentials in Korean seems to follow combination restrictions: i) Inference comes before Direct Knowledge, ii) Present Sensory and Reported cannot be marked in the same clause, iii) Reported must come after other evidential markers, iv) Past Sensory and Present Sensory cannot be marked in the same clause. Because of these restrictions, only 5 out of dozens possible multiple evidential marking combinations are observed in Korean. This paper takes inflectional suffixes including evidential markers in Korean as syntatic markers and argues that syntactic markers have their own scope and contribute semantic meaning to the scope not to the full sentence. Evidential markers in double marking have different syntactic scope and add not contradictory but complementary meanings to the preposition to express subtle and delicate evidential-related meanings.
KW - evidential;double marking;Present Sensory;Past Sensory;Inference;Reported
DO - 10.21049/ccs.2011.22..355
ER -

Jaemog Song. (2011). Multiple Marking of Evidentials in Korean. Cross-Cultural Studies, 22, 355-375.

Jaemog Song. 2011, "Multiple Marking of Evidentials in Korean", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.22, pp.355-375. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2011.22..355

Jaemog Song "Multiple Marking of Evidentials in Korean" Cross-Cultural Studies 22 pp.355-375 (2011) : 355.

Jaemog Song. Multiple Marking of Evidentials in Korean. 2011; 22 355-375. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2011.22..355

Jaemog Song. "Multiple Marking of Evidentials in Korean" Cross-Cultural Studies 22(2011) : 355-375.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2011.22..355

Jaemog Song. Multiple Marking of Evidentials in Korean. Cross-Cultural Studies, 22, 355-375. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2011.22..355

Jaemog Song. Multiple Marking of Evidentials in Korean. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2011; 22 355-375. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2011.22..355

Jaemog Song. Multiple Marking of Evidentials in Korean. 2011; 22 355-375. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2011.22..355

Jaemog Song. "Multiple Marking of Evidentials in Korean" Cross-Cultural Studies 22(2011) : 355-375.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2011.22..355

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