A bias-driven modal development of evidentiality: the Korean inferential evidential -po
- Authors
- Kwon, K.[Kwon, K.]
- Issue Date
- Nov-2018
- Publisher
- SPRINGER
- Keywords
- Inferential evidentiality; Self-addressed question; Bias; Abduction; Epistemic modality
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF EAST ASIAN LINGUISTICS, v.27, no.4, pp.311 - 346
- Indexed
- SSCI
AHCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF EAST ASIAN LINGUISTICS
- Volume
- 27
- Number
- 4
- Start Page
- 311
- End Page
- 346
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/skku/handle/2021.sw.skku/17806
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10831-018-9184-2
- ISSN
- 0925-8558
- Abstract
- This paper aims at analyzing the peculiar morphology and semantics of Korean inferential evidential expressions like ca-na-po-ta '(he) seems to be sleeping' in an integrated manner, with a claim that it contains a self-addressed interrogative morpheme. From a diachronic perspective, the paper proposes that the emergence of the inferential marker is bias-driven, arguing that an inherent bias in a self-addressed question constitutes a necessary condition for later development. And the bias, which is undoubtedly of an epistemic nature, is reinterpreted as inferential evidentiality with the addition of the previously perceptual morpheme -po-. On a synchronic side, capitalizing on the fact that -kka is another self-addressed interrogative morpheme alongside with -na and -ka, the present work claims that this morpheme can also make an inferential evidential marker, i.e., -kka-po-, which is always preceded by a prospective morpheme -l-. It is demonstrated that apparent semantic differences between the kka-variant and the other two variants are better understood as sortal contrasts, since the predictive future is the converse of the inferential past (Nichols, in: Chafe, Nichols (eds) Evidentiality: the linguistic coding of epistemology, Ablex, Norwood, 1986).
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