Lexicalization, a process of language change, has been conceptualized in a variety of ways.
Broadly defined as the adoption of concepts into the lexicon, it has been viewed by …

Discourse markers exhibit a range of grammatical properties that set them apart from many
other lexical and grammatical forms. A number of hypotheses have been proposed to …

Korean demonstratives developed into a number of DMs, including ilen 'this kind of'and
celen 'that kind of'via ellipsis. From the perspective of stance-taking, these contrasting DMs …

[Extract] Evidentiality is a grammatical category with source of information as its primary
meaning-whether the speaker saw the event happen (known as visual evidential), or heard …

This paper analyzes a case of grammaticalization of sentence-final particles (SFPs) that
developed from clausal connectives. These newly emerging SFPs carry a wide range of …

Grammar is constantly emergent as an aggregate whole of discourse tendencies that are
present in language use between interlocutors, hence the notion 'emergent …

Despite the widely accepted rule of discourse that discourages a discourse participant from
interrupting the speaker, interlocutors often interrupt the speaker for various reasons in …

Korean has an impressive inventory of sentence-final particles (SFPs) that appear as
clusters of verbal morphology. The last slot of the SFP cluster is for sentence type indicators …

ABSTRACT Contemporary Korean and Thai both have a number of forms that denote the
future-time reference. The grammatical statuses of these forms are widely variable in terms …

The goal of the paper is to identify the developmental pathways of iltan shaped by language
contact with China. The study explores how the Sino-Korean term iltan evolved from a …