英文摘要 |
The aim of this paper is to examine grammaticalization of negative conditionals (NCs) –e kacikonun and –e senun in Korean. The main goal of this paper is to claim that: 1) emergence of a negative evaluative sense of these conditional constructions is motivated by the speaker’s construal of psychological/emotional distance in perfective usage, i.e. totality view, of –e kaci and –e iss; 2) a conditional sense of the NCs is attributed to the meaning of –nun, which carries various grammatical senses in PDK. This paper claims that a negative evaluative sense of these NCs originates from perfective usage, i.e. the totality view of perfectives, of –e kaci and –e iss. In particular, the speaker’s frame of view looking at a situation as a single entity from an outside vantage point, and the speaker’s construal of psychological/emotional distance between the speaker’s belief or value system and a state of affairs of a situation result in evolution of these perfectives into a marker expressing the speaker’s attitude of undesirability. Development of negative conditional usage of –e kacikonun and –e senun is contributed by connective particles –e and –ko marking sequentiality. Because of a sequential sense of the connective particles, the complexes - e kaciko and –e se, each of which a combination of [–e kaci + –ko] and [–e iss + –e], carry the information structure ‘UNDESERABLE S1 leads to UNDESIRABLE S2’. The conditional sense of –e kacikonun and –e senun is contributed by the marker –nun delivering various senses such as topic, emphatic, contrastive, and conditional in Present-day Korean (PDK). |