Publications

Publication details [#12570]

Lee, Chungmin. 1995. The Development of Mood and Modality in Korean. In Fava, Elisabetta, ed. Speech Acts and Linguistic Research. Proceedings of the Workshop, July 15-17, 1994, Proceedings of the workshop, July 15-17, 1994, Center of Cognitive Science of New York at Buffalo. Edizioni nemo. pp. 71–88.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

inflection, L1-acquisition of | mood

Language as a subject

Korean

Annotation

Inflectional elements including modals corresponding to mood indicators occur rather late in English (as in all Indo-European languages), compared to the early development in Korean. The attunement theory might explain this kind of variation. Furthermore the controversy over deontic (distinction) first vs. epistemic first arises from not distinguishing between mood and modality.