의문문에서 나타나는 ‘-더-’의 시점 이동: 표준적인 지표어와 의문문의 의미론을 중심으로

Abstract

This paper addresses the so-called perspective shift of Korean direct perceptive evidential -te- in questions (Lim 2010, a.o.): the direct perceptive evidence implicated by -te- is interpreted from the speaker’s perspective in declaratives, and from the addressee’s perspective in interrogatives. To account for this, this paper argues that –te- is a function which takes a proposition as its argument and returns a character (Kaplan 1989), and this character again becomes a proposition in a context on behalf of declarative endings. By assuming this, as well as pointwise functional application (PFA: Heim and von Fintel 2001), it is shown that the perspective shift of –te- in interrogatives can be explained within the standard semantics of interrogatives (Hamblin 1973, a.o.) and of indexicals (Kaplan 1989, a.o.) After doing so, this paper briefly addresses Yang’s (2020) criticism on Lim (2010), which this paper is based on.