The temporal interpretation of tenseless relative clauses in Korean
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- 作者：Jungmee Lee
- 关键词：Relative clauses ; Temporal interpretation ; Tenseless ; Aktionsarten ; Discourse context ; World knowledge ; Korean
- 刊名：Journal of East Asian Linguistics
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：February 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：26
- 期：1
- 页码：77-107
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- 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
- 刊物主题：Comparative Linguistics; Japanese; Chinese; Theoretical Linguistics; Language and Literature;
- 出版者：Springer Netherlands
- ISSN：1572-8560
- 卷排序：26
文摘
This paper investigates the temporal interpretation of Korean relative clauses that are not morphologically marked with overt tense morphemes (plain KRCs). Previous researchers (e.g. Lee in Tense, aspect, and modality: a discourse-pragmatic analysis of verbal affixes in Korean from a typological perspective. Ph.D. thesis, UCLA, 1991, Stud Lang 17: 75–110, 1993; Yoon in Temporal adverbials and Aktionsarten in Korean. Ph.D. thesis, The Ohio State University, 1996) have postulated phonologically null temporal markers in plain KRCs, and have accounted for their temporal interpretation in terms of the meaning of the postulated temporal markers. In this paper, I show that these analyses are empirically problematic, and argue that the temporal interpretation can be captured without assuming null tense or aspect, in line with Lee and Tonhauser’s (J Semant 27:307–341, 2010) tenseless analysis of the temporal interpretation of Korean and Japanese coordination constructions. I show that the temporal interpretation of plain KRCs is determined by interactions among various factors such as Aktionsarten, discourse relations, discourse context, and world knowledge, and propose a compositional analysis of the observed facts.