The specificity of Korean Modality: focused on the co-occurring or neighboring with other modal/grammatical elements

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The purpose of this study is to present the specificity of Korean Modality focused on the co-occurring or neighboring with other modal/grammatical elements. First, we examine that the correspondence between the modal notion and grammatical form is very complicated in the case of ending and depending noun which interact with other modal/grammatical elements. Second, the epistemic modality is closely bound up with evidentiality from the sub-classification as well as the definition and ‘-더-’ which has been considered to be the traditional evidentiality in the previous study shows the complex semantic function beyond the modality and evidentiality. Third, there existed the critical position in establishing the emotive modality as modality type, as the emotive modality was considered to show non-systemicity, however emotive modality newly-defined in this study are exhibited in the reported, not the assertive, showing the speaker’s emotion in the paradigmatic system. Fourth, speaker-centered/agent-centered word, ‘싶다’ is examined in the new view of the speaker’s viewpoint importing to agent. Fifth, the ‘irrealis’ is a useful notional feature in Korean modality but there is no one-to-one correspondence between ‘irrealis’ and ‘-을’.

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