Please confirm what I inferred: On the Korean inferential-evidential marker -napo-  

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Kwon, Iksoo

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 44 no. 08 (2012), page 958-969.
Topik: Inferential evidentiality; Inductive reasoning; Mirativity; Politeness; Distancing; Korean
Fulltext: Kwon_I.pdf (265.89KB)

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The aim of this paper is to shed light on the semantics of the Korean inferential evidential marker -napo- (-na ‘whether’ and po- ‘see’ > -napo-), which had not received much attention in the literature. This paper also aims to discuss its underlying cognitive mechanism by investigating their functions and distributions. First, this paper addresses its core function of marking inferential evidentiality, which relies on the speaker's inductive reasoning process. Then, I focus on the marker's extended functions of encoding mirativity and of mitigating the strength of the speaker's assertion, providing a unified account of the marker's multiple functions. Finally, this paper discusses that the underlying cognitive mechanism of the marker is to pose a conceptual distance between the speaker and the inference that she makes in the utterance. The discussion includes comparison with -napo- and -n-moyang-i- (-n ‘relativizer,’ moyang ‘appearance,’ and i- ‘copular verb’ > -n moyangi-), another inferential periphrastic expression in Korean.

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