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Abstract

Abstract

This paper revisits the constructional and functional properties of the Korean causal connective -(). The paper argues that -() is used when the speaker is reconstructing and evaluating past situations; focal situations that have already occurred and/or been processed are reviewed and framed as causally related by a narrator (Subject of Consciousness) who construes the situations from a conceptual distance. A usage-based investigation supports this argument, demonstrating that -() subjectively encodes conceptual distance, often conveyed through quotation or emphasis, between the speaker and the focal situations. It uses the framework of the Basic Communicative Spaces Network (BCSN; Sanders et al., 2009) to model the construal process of -() in examples with various degrees of subjectivity, and further demonstrates that it conveys higher degrees of subjectivity than the prototypical Korean causal connective -.

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