Space in Tense
The interaction of tense, aspect, evidentiality and speech acts in Korean
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.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 189] 2012. xvii, 292 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 25 June 2012
Published online on 25 June 2012
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments | pp. xi–xii
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List of tables | pp. xiii–xiv
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List of figures | pp. xv–xvi
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Abbreviations | pp. xvii–xviii
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Chapter 1. Introduction | pp. 1–20
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Chapter 2. Deictic and non-deictic tenses in Korean | pp. 21–54
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Chapter 3. Semantics and pragmatics of the perfect (anterior) | pp. 55–88
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Chapter 4. Spatial deictic tense | pp. 89–124
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Chapter 5. Evidentials in Korean | pp. 125–198
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Chapter 6. Evidential vs. non-evidential sentences | pp. 199–226
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Chapter 7. Conclusions and further issues | pp. 227–276
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Bibliography | pp. 277–284
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Author index | pp. 285–286
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Language index | pp. 287–288
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Subject index | pp. 289–292
“This book provides an original and coherent analysis of a major part of the Korean tense/aspect/evidentiality system. In spite of a large prior literature on these issues, many problems have remained unsolved. Kyung-Sook Chung’s book contributes novel empirical findings, as well as new analytical insights which have implications not just for Korean, but for natural language more generally.”
Lisa Matthewson, University of British Columbia
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF/2GK: Linguistics/Korean
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General