Futuristic Questions in our Thinking: The Case of Apprehensionals in Korean

• 영문명: Futuristic Questions in our Thinking: The Case of Apprehensionals in Korean
• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: 예선희(Sunhee Yae) Tania Kuteva 엄수진(Sujin Eom) 이성하(Seongha Rhee)
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제121호, 117~147쪽, 전체 31쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2024.03.30

영문 초록

Korean has a large inventory of apprehen- sionals, the grammatical markers of fear. This study analyzes six apprehensionals that developed from Future and Question, i.e., -lkka, -lkkapwa(se), -lkkamwusewe(se), -lkkatwulyewe(se), -lkkamolla(se), and -lkkasiphe(se), all involving the future marker -l and the question marker -kka. Lexical forms serving the grammaticalization source constructions are the verbs of perception, cognition and emotion, e.g. po- ‘see’, mwusep- ‘be afraid’, twulyep- 'be afraid', molu- ‘not know’, and siph- ‘think’. It is particularly intriguing that there is no logical necessity that the notions such as ‘future’, ‘question’, ‘thinking’, ‘not knowing’, etc. should engender the notion of fear. This strongly suggests that the emergence of the 'fear'-meaning is the result of interaction among the source components, i.e., indeterminacy from the future, lack of confidence from the question, and self-oriented contemplation from the cogitation, among others. In this respect the development exhibits ‘subjectification’ of meaning.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Preliminaries: Background and Previous Studies

3. Futuristic Questions and Apprehensionals

4. Discussion

5. Summary and Conclusion

Abbreviations

References

키워드

apprehensional future question grammaticalization Korean