Korean Evidentials and Epistemic Modals

Kyung-Sook Chung

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Pages:: 177–213

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004436701_009

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Evidentials in numerous languages are claimed to be epistemic modals. Lee (2011) also claims that the Korean suffix -te is an epistemic modal of necessity as well as an evidential. This paper examines Lee’s (2011) definitions of -te and suffixes like -ess and -keyss, showing that her modal analysis cannot provide a full picture of Korean evidentials. Especially, it shows that direct evidential sentences, like simple non-evidential declarative ones, should not be treated as modalized. Then the paper discusses the issue concerning the epistemic modal analysis of evidentiality in terms of a typology of evidentiality—true evidentiality and quasi-evidentiality.

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Evidentials and Modals

Series: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface, Volume: 39

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004436701

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 30 Sep 2020

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