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 …

Rhee, Seongha. 2020. On determinants of discourse marker functions: Grammaticalization
and discourse-analytic perspectives. Linguistic Research 37 (2), 289-325. Recent research …

The Korean discourse particle kulssey has been examined primarily as a response to a
question in turn initial position, indicating the speaker's uncertainty or hesitation (eg,'well'). A …

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 …

Korean has a group of DMs that developed from sentential fragments through ellipsis
(EDMs), ie, those that were morpho-syntactically incapable of standing alone. They carry …

The concept of coarseness encoded by the lexeme mak 'coarsely'is represented at various
levels of grammar in Modern Korean. At the level of lexis, the adverb mak designates …

Most of the innovative and exciting work done by East Asian pragmaticians on their
languages, past and present alike, is written and published in local languages. As a result …

The source construction and the pathway for the formation of English epistemic adverbials
are widely discussed in the literature. However, few studies to our knowledge have …

This study examines the process of subjectification by focusing on discursive strategy in the
grammaticalization of the Japanese connective datte 'but/because'. It is found that datte …

This dissertation explores the multifaceted Korean interjection'ney'from the pragmatic,
multimodal, and historical perspectives. As a polite expression,'ney'demonstrates a …