@article{ART002328959},
author={Kang, Yeongri and Xu， Cuie and Park, Jinho},
title={On the ‘realization’ meaning of possibility expressions - ‘-ul swu iss-’ and its counterparts in Japanese and Chinese-},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2018},
volume={50},
pages={313-346},
doi={10.21049/ccs.2018.50..313}
TY - JOUR
AU - Kang, Yeongri
AU - Xu， Cuie
AU - Park, Jinho
TI - On the ‘realization’ meaning of possibility expressions - ‘-ul swu iss-’ and its counterparts in Japanese and Chinese-
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2018
VL - 50
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 313
EP - 346
SN - 1598-0685
AB - It is noted that generally speaking, the expressing of actualization or non-actualization of events is not the main role of possibility for the utilization of expressions. In spite of this fact, it is possible to see many examples in which possibility expressions represent actual events, and impossibility expressions represent a type of non-actualization in relation to events. This effect can be described as a semantic extension, by which the participant-internal possibility is extended to actualization due to participant- internal factors, and the participant-external possibility is extended to the actualization due to participant-external factors. When the related possibility expressions are used in this extended sense, they express the dynamic evaluative meaning of ‘desirability’ of the realized event, while it is determined that when the impossibility expressions are used in this extended sense, they are seen to express the evaluative meaning of ‘regretfulness’ about the non-actualization of the event.
In Modern Japanese, it is noted that there are a few expressions of ability and possibility. They can be largely divided into four types of expressions, according to their origins or uses of expression, which are ‘ability verbs’, affixes ‘-れる/られる(-reru/rareru)’, ‘-できる(-dekiru)’, and ‘-得る(-eru)’. They can all express participant-internal possibility and participant-external non-deontic possibility. While ‘ability verbs’, affixes ‘-れる/られる’ and ‘-できる’ can express participant-external deontic possibility, ‘-得る’ cannot. However, ‘-得る’ is the only possible element to designate the event of a epistemic possibility. Also, the four types of expressions have the usage of conveying ‘actualization/non-actualization,’ as is the case of the Korean language. However in Japanese, in fact adjectives cannot be associated with ‘ability verbs’ or ‘ability affixes.’ Thus the expressions of ‘regrets’ should in that case depend on the use contexts, unlike the expression ‘adj+-지 못하다’ as noted in Korean.
The ability and possibility in Modern Chinese are mainly expressed by means of the four auxiliary verbs ‘能(néng)’, ‘会(huì)’, ‘可以(kěyǐ)’ and ‘可能(kěnéng)’. ‘能’ and ‘会’ along with ‘可以’ can all convey participant-internal possibility. In this way ‘能’ and ‘可以’ can express participant-external possibility. Only ‘会’ and ‘可能’ can express epistemic possibility. As for ‘actualization,’ among the four auxiliary verbs, only ‘能’ can represent actualization. Also, among the negatives of the four auxiliary verbs, only ‘沒能’ can represent non-actualization.
KW - Modality;possibility;actualization;participant-internal modality;participant-external modality;epistemic modality;evaluative modality
DO - 10.21049/ccs.2018.50..313
ER -
Kang, Yeongri, Xu， Cuie and Park, Jinho. (2018). On the ‘realization’ meaning of possibility expressions - ‘-ul swu iss-’ and its counterparts in Japanese and Chinese-. Cross-Cultural Studies, 50, 313-346.
Kang, Yeongri, Xu， Cuie and Park, Jinho. 2018, "On the ‘realization’ meaning of possibility expressions - ‘-ul swu iss-’ and its counterparts in Japanese and Chinese-", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.50, pp.313-346. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2018.50..313
Kang, Yeongri, Xu， Cuie, Park, Jinho "On the ‘realization’ meaning of possibility expressions - ‘-ul swu iss-’ and its counterparts in Japanese and Chinese-" Cross-Cultural Studies 50 pp.313-346 (2018) : 313.
Kang, Yeongri, Xu， Cuie, Park, Jinho. On the ‘realization’ meaning of possibility expressions - ‘-ul swu iss-’ and its counterparts in Japanese and Chinese-. 2018; 50 313-346. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2018.50..313
Kang, Yeongri, Xu， Cuie and Park, Jinho. "On the ‘realization’ meaning of possibility expressions - ‘-ul swu iss-’ and its counterparts in Japanese and Chinese-" Cross-Cultural Studies 50(2018) : 313-346.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2018.50..313
Kang, Yeongri; Xu， Cuie; Park, Jinho. On the ‘realization’ meaning of possibility expressions - ‘-ul swu iss-’ and its counterparts in Japanese and Chinese-. Cross-Cultural Studies, 50, 313-346. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2018.50..313
Kang, Yeongri; Xu， Cuie; Park, Jinho. On the ‘realization’ meaning of possibility expressions - ‘-ul swu iss-’ and its counterparts in Japanese and Chinese-. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2018; 50 313-346. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2018.50..313
Kang, Yeongri, Xu， Cuie, Park, Jinho. On the ‘realization’ meaning of possibility expressions - ‘-ul swu iss-’ and its counterparts in Japanese and Chinese-. 2018; 50 313-346. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2018.50..313
Kang, Yeongri, Xu， Cuie and Park, Jinho. "On the ‘realization’ meaning of possibility expressions - ‘-ul swu iss-’ and its counterparts in Japanese and Chinese-" Cross-Cultural Studies 50(2018) : 313-346.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2018.50..313
