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Perspective shifts of Korean evidentials and the effect of contexts

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: In this paper we identify two types of the evidential perspective shifts (the evidence holder indicated by an evidential marker is different from the utterance of the sentence containing that evidential marker) in Korean, the shift in interrogatives and the shift in declaratives, and explain these two shifts by proposing specific lexical entries for Korean evidential markers without any significant revision of the existing theory of interrogatives or indexicals. We also discuss an implication of our proposal, especially with respect to the interaction between our lexical entry for the Korean direct evidential marker and the Korean long-distance anaphor caki.

Source: Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory

DOI: 10.3765/salt.v22i0.2648

Authors: Dongsik Lim, Chungmin Lee

Institutions: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Seoul National University

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: National Research Foundation

OpenAlex ID: W1667595716

FWCI: 7.133

Cites: 17

Cited by: 53

Related to: 10