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A Study of function meaning {dwaess-eo} as a Korean response marker

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2014, 46(), pp.407-426
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Ahn, Joo-hoh 1

1남서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article is aimed at the meaning features of {dwaess-eo}, context-dependent response marker, and grammaticalization process in spoken Korean corpus. The response marker {dwaess-eo} derived from the verb {doe-ta(become)}, has the positive signs like {Yes} as well as the negative signs like {no} depending on the context. The verb {doe-ta} has the argument structure of [NP1-i/ka NP2-i/ka], and basic meaning of '(what) to fit standard'. So this means NP1 reached to the reference point (or target position). Meaning of the {dwaess-eo} is changed into the direction of [completed person's utterance or action → Understanding → satisfaction of current state → refusing speaker’s request]. The fact of grammaticalization of {dwaess-eo} is known through the morphological characteristics like this. The {dwaess-eo} as a discourse marker is combined the only past tense endings {-eoss-}, impossible of present tense or future tense. In addition to, the syntactic argument structure of the original reduction is impossible. In conclusion, the {dwaess-eo} is one of the discourse markers through the grammaticalization.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.