The non-actualization meaning in -eya hamodal sentences

Bokyung Mun (문보경)

The non-actualization meaning in -eya hamodal sentences

Korean Semantics
2022, 75(), pp.175-203
Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
Received : February 16, 2022
Accepted : March 23, 2022
Published : March 30, 2022

Bokyung Mun ¹

¹조지타운대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this paper, I discuss the non-actualization inference which arises from the interaction between a modal expression -eya ha- and a past tense morpheme. After discussing the general properties of the Korean priority modal -eya ha-, I show that the non-actualization inference we often find in -ess-eya ha- modal sentences does not belong to a traditional classification. By adopting Tonhauser et al.’s (2013) classification which uses a distinction between at-issue and not-at-issue meanings, I show that the non-actualization inference in -ess-eya ha- modal sentences is a not-at-issue entailment. I argue that, in this way, we can differentiate various subclasses of inferences in a unified way

KEYWORDS

modal, tense, obligation, non-actualization inference, meaning classification, not-at-issue, Korean

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