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A contrastive study of sentence-final nominal predicates in Japanese and Korean: With a particular attention to “moyoo-da” and “moyang-ita”

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2014, (41), pp.17-32
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature

Kim, Joung-Min 1

1레이타쿠대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to clarify the similarities and differences of the sentence-final nominal predicates in Japanese and Korean. Particular attention has been paid to a contrastive analysis on “moyoo-da” in Japanese and its Korean counterpart“moyang-ita”. The results found in this paper are as follows. (I) In terms of their morpho-syntactic behaviors, “moyoo-da” and “moyang-ita” have co-occurrence restrictions on the variant of the copula, i.e. negation, interrogative and (partially) past form. Copula can be omitted and its presence/absence does not affect their semantic or functional differences. (II) “Moyang-ita” has no subject restriction on the ‘clause’, however the subject of “moyoo-da” is often the third person.(III) In terms of their semantic characteristics, both encode modal meanings such as the speaker’s uncertainty or inference based on (in)direct evidence. “Moyang-ita” encodes inference about both the speaker’s and the other’s internal state based on perceptible evidence, on the other hand,“moyoo-da” is confined to the latter.

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