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The type of the final ending ‘-dago’ in an interrogative sentence and evidentiality

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2019, 66(), pp.235-262
  • DOI : 10.19033/sks.2019.12.66.235
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Received : October 30, 2019
  • Accepted : December 15, 2019
  • Published : December 30, 2019

Lee,JunHee 1

1동국대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper aims to define the function of the final ending ‘-dago’ in interrogative sentences. The final ending ‘-dago’ in interrogative sentences has a different function than other interrogative sentences. Generally, interrogative sentences have a function that a speaker who has no knowledge about proposition wants to get information. But this ‘-dago’ don’t have that function. In this paper, final ending ‘-dago’ was classified into two types, depending on whether the subject of the main sentence was restored, whether the form changed according to the sentence type, and whether ask again what. The function of the final ending ‘-dago’ in an interrogative sentence is related to hearsay and quotative evidentiality. The first type ‘-dago’ function as hearsay and quotative evidentiality marker. And the function of the second type ‘-dago’ is hearsay and quotative evidentiality strategy. Because the first type is satisfied criteria of hearsay and quotative evidentiality marker, but the second type doesn’t. The first type of ‘-dago’ already exists, but the second type of ‘-dago’ the reason for the development is to supplement the part that is not represented, the first type. For the first type of ‘-dago’, it is not possible to start discourse and the source of the information is limited to the last speaker. The second type, on the other hand, can start discourse and there are no restrictions on the source of information.

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