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The Semantic Function of a Past Imperfective Aspect Marker '-deo-'

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2013, 42(), pp.81-110
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to investigate the semantic functions of prefinal ending ‘-deo-’ in relative clause forms. The prefinal ending ‘-deo-’ in relative clause forms is a past imperfective aspect marker which is a type of view aspects. A imperfective aspect marker describes a situation focusing on internal stage without mention about initial and final endpoints. On the other hand, a perfective aspect marker describes a situation as a point. These view aspects interact with situation aspects which are classified by the internal temporal features of verbs, argument, and etc. To achieve our purpose, we divide the semantic functions of ‘-deo-’ into basic meanings and usage meanings. On basic meanings, it has progressive or continuous aspectal meaning in activity, accomplishment, or stative situation. Whereas in semelfactive or achievement situation without duration, ‘-deo-’ tends to have inceptive, iterative and habitual aspectual meanings. On usage meanings, ‘-deo-’ is able to function time backgrounds through the basic aspectual meaning focusing on a internal stage of a situation. Next, it has implication meanings of incompleteness or stop meanings. These implication meanings are up to whether the situation aspect has a telic or atelic feature. Lastly, it is possible to distinguish ‘-deon’ from ‘-eon’ and ‘-essdeon’ which are past markers in relative clauses on usage meanings. The form ‘-eon’ and ‘-essdeon’ respectively tends to emphasize the result of situations and discontinuity about the result of situations.

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