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A Study of Negative Conditionals in Korean:-takanun and -esstakanun
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- Issue Date
- 2008
- Publisher
- 서울대학교 언어교육원
- Citation
- 어학연구, Vol.44 No.2, pp. 299-318
- Keywords
- conditionals ; negative conditionals ; counterfactuals ; desirability ; back-shifting
- Abstract
- This paper aims to characterize the semantic world of two negative conditional markers in Korean: -takanun and -esstakanun. I argue that -takanun is constrained to conditionalize a 'progressive' situation over a probable domain, whereas -esstaknun can be used to express a variety of conditional speaker attitudes such as GENERIC STANCE and UNCERTAINTY as well as COUNTERFACTUAL in the hypothetical domain. I also argue that -ess in the -esstakanun form should be viewed as the perfect aspect marker and it does a grammatical role of back-shifting, creating such a conditional reading as If it ever happens that ... .
- ISSN
- 0254-4474
- Language
- English
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