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Reported Evidentiality in Korean.

CHAE SOOK HEE 1

1인천대학교

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ABSTRACT

Sookhee Chae. 2015. Reported Evidentiality in Korean. Korean Semantics, 50. This study aims to identify reported evidentials in the Korean language and to clarify their characteristics. -Damyeo/ -damyeonseo1, -damyeo/-damyeonseo2, -dana, -dani2, and -daji2 are identified as reported evidentials in Korean in that they are grammaticalized as endings which are used to mark reported information. They are used both as hearsay evidentials for reported information with no reference to those it was reported by and as quotative evidentials for reported information with an overt reference to the quoted source. They do not just refer to data acquired through someone else's report, but express speakers' attitude towards information such as dissatisfaction and unreliability. The Korean language has several forms which are in the process of grammaticalization into reported evidentials such as -dae, -danda, -dabnida, -dani, and -dabnikka. It is these forms which function as the unmarked reported evidentials in that they simply refer to reported information without denoting any attitudes towards reported information.

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