Dongsik Lim

Hongik University, English Education, Faculty Member

University of Southern California, Linguistics, Graduate Student

CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Spanish National Research Council), ILLA, External Collaborator

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A Note on Korean Evidential -te

언어학, Aug 1, 2013

Korean direct perceptive evidential -te- is said to introduce two puzzles. First, when it is used... more Korean direct perceptive evidential -te- is said to introduce two puzzles. First, when it is used without any tense marker, the sentence hosting it is interpreted as past. Second, when it is used with so-called tense markers, such as past -ess- and future -keyss-, -te- introduces the implication similar to what is introduced by inferential evidentials in other languages. In this paper I first show that this apparent puzzle is misleading, by presenting some counterexamples which do not fit to what the ‘puzzle’ says. Then I propose a new lexical entry for -te-, according to which -te- introduces the presupposition that the speaker acquired some direct perceptive evidence before the utterance time, and then infers the prejacent from this direct perceptive evidence. I also show that this analysis accounts for the data in the previous puzzle as well as other data presented in this paper. Finally I point out several problems of previous analyses which are based on this ‘misguided’ puzzle.

Another type of evidential? A study of Korean verbal morpheme -te

On the Interaction between Lexical Aspects of Predicates and Evidentiality

언어학, Dec 1, 2014

The aim of this paper is twofold: to propose a novel analysis of Korean direct perceptive evident... more The aim of this paper is twofold: to propose a novel analysis of Korean direct perceptive evidential -te- based on the situation semantics (Barwise and Perry 1983), and to illustrate how this proposal actually works, focusing on the cases where the lexical aspect of predicates and the semantics of -teinteract. To achieve these goals, first, I adopt and revise Kalsang et al.’s (2013) analysis of Tibetan direct perceptive evidentials, and propose that, for -te- to be felicitously used, the situation where the speaker acquires perceptive evidence should be the same as, or be included by, the situation where the proposition is true. Next, I show that, with this proposal, we can account for some instances of the interaction between the lexical aspect of predicates and the semantics of -te-, including the case of the verb ip-, and the case where aspectually different predicates under the same situation show different behaviors regarding -te- and other aspectual morphemes.

Gradable Predicates and Directed Motion Constructions

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A study of Korean counterfactual conditionals: focusing on the role of the past tense –ess

Han'gug'eo yi'mi'hag, Mar 31, 2018

(Lexical) Aspects, Situation Semantics, and Evidentiality

한국언어학회 학술대회지, Jun 1, 2016

Evidentials in Interrogatives: A Case Study of Korean

This paper concerns a puzzle about the interpretation of Korean direct evidential -tein interroga... more This paper concerns a puzzle about the interpretation of Korean direct evidential -tein interrogatives which I call evidential perspective shift in questions ('origo shift of evidentials' in quesitons in Garrett 2001). This puzzle consists in the evidential being interpreted as regarding a source of information of the answerer rather than the questioner. Here I introduce a novel semantic approach to this phenomenon which derives it as a consequence of the interaction of the meaning of questions and of evidentials. I will also illustrate the conceptual and empirical advantages of this view over previous accounts. 2.1 Semantics of Indexicals: Kaplan (1989) theory of indexicals is intended to explain the difference between (2a) and (2b): 2 Higginbotham (2009) also pointed out this characteristics under the term First-person authority.

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Perspective shifts of Korean evidentials and the effect of contexts

Semantics and Linguistic Theory, Sep 3, 2012

In this paper we identify two types of the evidential perspective shifts (the evidence holder ind... more In this paper we identify two types of the evidential perspective shifts (the evidence holder indicated by an evidential marker is different from the utterance of the sentence containing that evidential marker) in Korean, the shift in interrogatives and the shift in declaratives, and explain these two shifts by proposing specific lexical entries for Korean evidential markers without any significant revision of the existing theory of interrogatives or indexicals. We also discuss an implication of our proposal, especially with respect to the interaction between our lexical entry for the Korean direct evidential marker and the Korean long-distance anaphor caki.

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Concessive Conditionals without even: in Contrast with Korean Counterparts

Korean Evidential -te- Inference from Direct Evidence

for their comments and questions. I am also indebted to the discussion with Semoon Hoe and Barry ... more for their comments and questions. I am also indebted to the discussion with Semoon Hoe and Barry Schein. Special thanks go to Elena Guerzoni for her comments and suggestions to the earlier version of this paper. All remaining errors are mine, of course. This work is partly supported by the project Estructura eventiva y 'construcción' léxico-sintáctica de las oraciones. Teoría y experimentación (FF2009-07114).

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On the de se reading in the de se center shift in Korean

Linguistik aktuell, Jun 8, 2017

On the Distribution and the Semantics of the Korean Focus Particle –lato

Studies in natural language and linguistic theory, 2017

The Korean focus particle –lato carries the implication similar to that of English even, but its ... more The Korean focus particle –lato carries the implication similar to that of English even, but its distribution is different from English even or even-like items in other languages (German auch nur, Italian anche solo, etc.). In this paper, I analyze –lato in parallel with auch nur or anche solo, by decomposing it into the covert exclusive particle similar to English merely and the additive particle –to, which is similar to also. Furthermore, to account for the difference between –lato and auch nur or anche solo, I assume that –to in –lato introduces an additive presupposition weaker than that of also, auch or anche.

Concessive Conditionals without even: in Contrast with Korean Counterparts

한국언어과학회 학술대회, Oct 1, 2020

Even if, factivity and focus

Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, 2007

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The 1st person restriction on Korean evidential marker ‘-te’: focusing on subject-oriented psych-predicates

On the de se reading in the de se center shift in Korean: An account based on logophoric binding

The direct evidential marker ‘-te’ in Korean and indicative conditionals: a synopsis

(Lexical) Aspects, Situation Semantics, and Evidentiality

A study of Korean counterfactual conditionals: focusing on the role of the past tense –ess

Korean deadjectival inchoatives and measure phrases: a compositional study

Language and Information

Korean adjectives in general cannot combine with measure phrases (MP), but MPs are compatible wit... more Korean adjectives in general cannot combine with measure phrases (MP), but MPs are compatible with adjectives when they appear with the inchoative morpheme -(e)ci. In this case, MPs can only denote the difference between two states along the dimension denoted by the root adjective. To account for this, this paper proposes that i) -(e)ci is a spell-out of V in the directed motion construction which takes an abstract path argument, like become, and ii) this path argument contains a comparative morpheme. By assuming this we can explain why MPs appear with -(e)ci, as well as other interesting phenomena such as variable telicity in deadjectival verbs with -(e)ci.

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A Note on Korean Evidential -te

언어학, Aug 1, 2013