@article{ART002631044},
author={JEONG-SEOK Yang},
title={A critique of recent formal semantic descriptions of ‘-teo -’ in Korean},
journal={Korean Semantics},
issn={1226-7198},
year={2020},
volume={69},
pages={155-195},
doi={10.19033/sks.2020.9.69.155}
TY - JOUR
AU - JEONG-SEOK Yang
TI - A critique of recent formal semantic descriptions of ‘-teo -’ in Korean
JO - Korean Semantics
PY - 2020
VL - 69
IS - null
PB - The Society Of Korean Semantics
SP - 155
EP - 195
SN - 1226-7198
AB - I argue that the inflectional element ‘-teo-’ in Korean is an element essentially representing a modal meaning, rather than a marker for tense or a marker solely for evidentiality, and show that its semantic description contains an intensional function in terms of Kratzer’s(1981,1991) formal semantic theory of modality, and a definedness condition on the existence of the direct evidence about the preceding proposition. After discussing previous three different approaches, i.e., tense based, solely modal based, and solely evidential based ones, I show that my definition combining the modality and the presupposition of direct evidence enables capturing the various semantic constraints of ‘-teo-’ sentences. In particular, I show that there is a general semantic requirement of an epistemic modal element on the judge dependent elements and this requirement triggers to resolve the so-called 1st person restriction of ‘-teo-’ sentences.
KW - -teo-;modality;evidentiality;tense;Kratzer’s theory of modality;situation semantics;possible world;context;judge
DO - 10.19033/sks.2020.9.69.155
ER -
JEONG-SEOK Yang. (2020). A critique of recent formal semantic descriptions of ‘-teo -’ in Korean. Korean Semantics, 69, 155-195.
JEONG-SEOK Yang. 2020, "A critique of recent formal semantic descriptions of ‘-teo -’ in Korean", Korean Semantics, vol.69, pp.155-195. Available from: doi:10.19033/sks.2020.9.69.155
JEONG-SEOK Yang "A critique of recent formal semantic descriptions of ‘-teo -’ in Korean" Korean Semantics 69 pp.155-195 (2020) : 155.
JEONG-SEOK Yang. A critique of recent formal semantic descriptions of ‘-teo -’ in Korean. 2020; 69 155-195. Available from: doi:10.19033/sks.2020.9.69.155
JEONG-SEOK Yang. "A critique of recent formal semantic descriptions of ‘-teo -’ in Korean" Korean Semantics 69(2020) : 155-195.doi: 10.19033/sks.2020.9.69.155
JEONG-SEOK Yang. A critique of recent formal semantic descriptions of ‘-teo -’ in Korean. Korean Semantics, 69, 155-195. doi: 10.19033/sks.2020.9.69.155
JEONG-SEOK Yang. A critique of recent formal semantic descriptions of ‘-teo -’ in Korean. Korean Semantics. 2020; 69 155-195. doi: 10.19033/sks.2020.9.69.155
JEONG-SEOK Yang. A critique of recent formal semantic descriptions of ‘-teo -’ in Korean. 2020; 69 155-195. Available from: doi:10.19033/sks.2020.9.69.155
JEONG-SEOK Yang. "A critique of recent formal semantic descriptions of ‘-teo -’ in Korean" Korean Semantics 69(2020) : 155-195.doi: 10.19033/sks.2020.9.69.155