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Modals and Anaphors in Korean

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In this paper, we investigate Korean modals such as su isse, keta and ci. We assume that suisse is an epistemic possibility operator and keta is an epistemic necessity operator and ci and keyssci are both evidentials. Asher and McCready (2005) [2] offered an account of the discourse behavior of Japanese epistemic modal/evidential, focusing on the phenomenon of modal subordination (Roberts 1989) [11]. In this paper, too, focus on modal subordination to help analyze the Korean modal system. This article is concerned with the theory of anaphoric relations involving pronouns. Our main interest is to show that this theory amounts solely to a theory of the conditions under which pronouns and their antecedents can, must, or cannot be identified.

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  1. Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, Japan

    Jinung Kim

  2. Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, Japan

    Nicholas Asher

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  1. ISIR, Osaka University, 8-1, Mihogaoka, 567-0047, Osaka, Ibaraki, Japan

    Takashi Washio

  2. CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan

    Akito Sakurai

  3. Dept. of Information Media, Tokyo Denki University, room 1009, 10th floor, building 11, 2-2, Kandanishikicho, Chiyodaku, 101-8457, Tokyo, Japan

    Katsuto Nakajima

  4. National Institute of Informatics, 2-1-2 Chiyoda-ku, 101-8430, Tokyo, Japan

    Hideaki Takeda

  5. Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, Japan

    Satoshi Tojo

  6. Department of ISEE, Kyushu University, 819-0395, Fukuoka, Japan

    Makoto Yokoo

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Kim, J., Asher, N. (2006). Modals and Anaphors in Korean. In: Washio, T., Sakurai, A., Nakajima, K., Takeda, H., Tojo, S., Yokoo, M. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11780496_16

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