A Note on Korean Evidential -te-: Inference from Direct Perceptive EvidenceA Note on Korean Evidential -te-: Inference from Direct Perceptive Evidence
- Other Titles
- A Note on Korean Evidential -te-: Inference from Direct Perceptive Evidence
- Authors
- 임동식
- Issue Date
- 2013
- Publisher
- 사단법인 한국언어학회
- Keywords
- Korean direct perceptive evidential -te-; past -ess-; future -keyss-
- Citation
- 언어학, no.66, pp.51 - 71
- Journal Title
- 언어학
- Number
- 66
- Start Page
- 51
- End Page
- 71
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hongik/handle/2020.sw.hongik/17696
- ISSN
- 1225-7494
- Abstract
- Korean direct perceptive evidential -te- is said to introduce two puzzles. First, when it is used without any tense marker, the sentence hosting it is interpreted as past. Second, when it is used with so-called tense markers, such as past -ess- and future -keyss-, -te- introduces the implication similar to what is introduced by inferential evidentials in other languages. In this paper I first show that this apparent puzzle is misleading, by presenting some counterexamples which do not fit to what the ‘puzzle’ says. Then I propose a new lexical entry for -te-, according to which -te- introduces the presupposition that the speaker acquired some direct perceptive evidence before the utterance time, and then infers the prejacent from this direct perceptive evidence. I also show that this analysis accounts for the data in the previous puzzle as well as other data presented in this paper. Finally I point out several problems of previous analyses which are based on this ‘misguided’ puzzle.
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