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Abstract

This article discusses the temporal interpretation of two attributive clause markers in Korean and -, which are standardly analyzed as carrying past imperfective and present imperfective meanings, respectively. I show that and - carry not only temporal but also modal/evidential meanings and they do so in ways hitherto unnoticed. I claim that presents an eventuality from a retrospective point of view, providing a window into what I call ‘an evidential past’, whereas - does so from a projective point of view, providing a window into what I call ‘a metaphysical future’. The findings of this paper suggest that the line between Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Evidentiality can be blurrier in some languages than in others, and that when interpreting attributive clauses, what is construed as the viewpoint holder and in which direction the viewpoint is headed relative to some temporal anchor may matter greatly.

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Keyword(s): aspect; attributive clauses; evidentiality; imperfective; Korean; modality; projective; retrospective; tense

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