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The Modal Meaning of Korean Auxiliary Verbs, notha and duda

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2011, 36(), pp.65-89
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Kim Jung Nam 1

1경희대학교

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ABSTRACT

Modern Korean auxiliary verbs notha and duda have been generally regarded as synonyms. In this paper, I propose to divide the Korean auxiliary verb notha into three different verbs: notha^1, notha^2, notha^3, where the last notion is rarely observed by Korean linguists. This paper will be a frontier work that discovers and discusses the 3rd notion of notha^3 in detail. The three kinds of notha are different not only in their meanings but also their connection constraints and conjugation forms, among which only notha^1 can be compared with duda. Unlike notha, Korean has just one form of duda. In prior studies, duda has been described to contain the meaning of continuation and preparations for something, as we see its definition in the Korean dictionary. It has been recently claimed that duda has the meaning of “the acts of giving Benefit to the subjects.” However, this paper argues against such claims in that duda is used in more restrictive ways when compared to notha^1 because duda does not occur with preceding verbs that have negative senses, i.e. the meaning feature of [-desirability]. I futher claim in this paper that notha^3 has the meaning of irresponsibility, and therefore we use the clause including ‘-eo notko’ in order to represent such meaning.

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