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Publication Year
2022-03
Journal
언어연구
Publisher
경희대학교 언어정보연구소
Citation
언어연구, Vol.39 No.1, pp.95-126
Keyword
causecausalitysentence-final -nikkacontinuum representationstance markerKorean
Abstract
This study analyzes the sentence-final causal connective -nikka in Korean. Based on corpus data, several meanings or functions of sentence-final -nikka clauses are identified, including epistemic causality, speech-act causality, and discourse marking, each with several subcategories. The findings corroborate earlier research that identified the first two meanings. The construction under discussion can serve as a discourse marker mainly modulating the impact of an assertion or speech act, since presenting a cause or reason for a situation is one of the most accessible means to express politeness. This study reports cases in which the conventional time sequence between a cause and a consequence is transposed while providing a cause for a speech act depicted in a main clause. Additionally, this study suggests that sentence-final -nikka clauses can stand alone without any deleted or preposed main clauses to impart circumstantial or additional information inferable from the context. To represent the various senses of the construction, a continuum model is proposed for both theoretical and practical reasons, wherein the core underlying meaning is argued to be causality, which is fleshed out in a specific context.
ISSN
1229-1374
Language
Eng
URI
https://aurora.ajou.ac.kr/handle/2018.oak/35571
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17250/khisli.39.1.202203.004
Type
Article
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