Evidentiality and Its Interaction with Tense
Author | : Jungmee Lee |
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Release | : 2011 |
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Abstract: Evidentiality is a linguistic category that specifies the source of information conveyed, such as direct observation, inference, or hearsay (Aikhenvald 2004). Through a detailed study of three distinct evidential readings that arise from the Korean evidentials -te and -ney, this dissertation studies the close interaction between evidentiality and other semantic categories, particularly temporality and modality. The goal of the dissertation is to develop a formal analysis which adequately captures the following empirical patterns of the meaning of Korean evidential utterances.