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The purpose of this dissertation is a study of Korean evidentiality on the basis of presuppositional analysis . My claim is that Korean evidentiality can be accounted for under the binding theory of presupposition (Asher & Lascarides 1998 ; 2003 ; Asher 2000 ) . The proposal I motivate in this dissertation is that interpretations of Korean evidentials can be handled using the same mechanism which resolves anaphoric expressions .Dynamic Semantics such as DRT and SDRT give a contribution to account for phenomena like anaphora bridging , presupposition , and accomodation bythe update procedure of the discourse structure .
I investigate Korean evidentials by examining their distributions and functions in Korean grammar and specifying the types of information source in Korean evidential system . In particular ,there are three evidential types in Korean : Direct te , Reportative tay , Inference ci . I propose that the Korean evidential system corresponds to B -1 system in Aikhenvald (2004 ) . I also give an analysis of the intonation phrase of utterances featuring Korean evidentials with the autosegmental -metrical model of intonational phonology .
Moreover , I argue that Korean evidentials are presupposition triggers . To verify my claim , I provide various tests such as negation , challengeability and the interrogative flip . All the tests support for classifying Korean evidentials as one category . I also review and compare three different theoretical frameworks : modal , illocutionary and presuppositional analysis . I reject a modal analysis and an illocutionary analysis and employ a presuppositional analysis for Korean evidentiality .I propose that Korean evidentiality can be explained in terms of SDRT (Asher & Lascarides 1998 ; 2003 ) . Asher & Lascarides (1998 ) regard presupposition resolution as an integrated part of the task of building discourse relations . I also show that the speaker -dependency of evidentiality is explicitly associated with characteristics of indexicals . Just as in the line of work stemming from Hunter & Asher (2005 ) , I demonstrated that Korean evidentials are anaphorically resolved by the extra -linguistic context as well as by the linguistic context . |