Buch, Englisch, Band 189, 292 Seiten, Gewicht: 710 g
The interaction of tense, aspect, evidentiality and speech acts in Korean
Buch, Englisch, Band 189, 292 Seiten, Gewicht: 710 g
Reihe: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
ISBN: 978-90-272-5572-3
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
This monograph explores the tense, aspect, mood, and evidentiality of Korean, which has a rich verbal inflectional system, and proposes novel treatments within the framework of compositional semantics. One of the major contributions is the demonstration that Korean has two types of deictic tense—simple deictic and spatial deictic tense. Spatial deictic tense refers to the notion of the speaker’s ‘perceptual field’ (or deictic range), as well as to temporality, functioning to set up a condition for a systematic evidential distinction. The research in this volume shows that the basic paradigm of evidentiality of Korean derives from the standard TMA system combined with the notion of space. This volume also shows that perfect and past tense utilize different primitives. The intended readership of this volume extends beyond Koreanists to scholars interested specifically in tense, mood, aspect, and evidentiality as well as in general theories of grammar and semantics-pragmatics.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgments
List of tables
List of figures
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Deictic and non-deictic tenses in Korean
Chapter 3. Semantics and pragmatics of the perfect (anterior)
Chapter 4. Spatial deictic tense
Chapter 5. Evidentials in Korean
Chapter 6. Evidential vs. non-evidential sentences
Chapter 7. Conclusions and further issues
Bibliography
Author index
Language index
Subject index
