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Publication details [#32068]

Oh, Sun-Young. 2003. The Korean verbal suffix -ess-: a diachronic account of its multiple uses. Journal of Pragmatics 35 (8) : 1181–1222.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | language use | pragmatics | suffix

Language as a subject

Korean

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study demonstrates that the multiple uses of the verbal suffix -ess- in Modern Korean discourse, greatly rely on different contextual factors, thus confirming Lee's findings.