A bias-driven modal development of evidentiality: the Korean inferential evidential –po
| Autor: | Kyongjoon Kwon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language media_common.quotation_subject 06 humanities and the arts Interrogative Sortal Language and Linguistics Linguistics History and Philosophy of Science Morpheme Evidentiality Perception 0602 languages and literature Converse Theoretical linguistics Psychology Comparative linguistics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of East Asian Linguistics. 27:311-346 |
| ISSN: | 1572-8560 0925-8558 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10831-018-9184-2 |
| Popis: | This paper aims at analyzing the peculiar morphology and semantics of Korean inferential evidential expressions like ca-na-po-ta ‘(he) seems to be sleeping’ in an integrated manner, with a claim that it contains a self-addressed interrogative morpheme. From a diachronic perspective, the paper proposes that the emergence of the inferential marker is bias-driven, arguing that an inherent bias in a self-addressed question constitutes a necessary condition for later development. And the bias, which is undoubtedly of an epistemic nature, is reinterpreted as inferential evidentiality with the addition of the previously perceptual morpheme –po-. On a synchronic side, capitalizing on the fact that –kka is another self-addressed interrogative morpheme alongside with –na and –ka, the present work claims that this morpheme can also make an inferential evidential marker, i.e., -kka-po-, which is always preceded by a prospective morpheme –l-. It is demonstrated that apparent semantic differences between the kka-variant and the other two variants are better understood as sortal contrasts, since the predictive future is the converse of the inferential past (Nichols, in: Chafe, Nichols (eds) Evidentiality: the linguistic coding of epistemology, Ablex, Norwood, 1986). |
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