Language and Information (한국언어정보학회지:언어와정보)
- Volume 11 Issue 2
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- Pages.1-22
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- 2007
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- 1226-7430(pISSN)
Tasi vs. Tto
‘다시’와 ‘또’
Abstract
This paper examines tasi and tto, two Korean adverbs with roughly the same semantic value of again. It presents two empirical generalizations: (i) semantically tasi can mark the recovery of the original state, modifying an eventuality that is token-identical to a contextually-given eventuality, whereas tto is only limited to mark a simple repetition, thus modifying a type-identical event; (ii) functionally tasi can modify result states, but tto cannot. Then, it illustrates how the functional difference of result state modification can be accounted for by the notion of default events.
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