Publications
Publication details [#53034]
Kim, Minju. 2010. The historical development of Korean siph- “to think” into markers of desire, inference, and similarity. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (4) : 1000–1016. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
Drawing on diachronic corpus data, this study explores the historical development of the Korean psychological predicate 'siph' (‘to think to oneself’), into markers of desire, inference, and similarity. It also addresses the unidirectionality hypothesis of grammaticalization.