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Using conversational data, frequency counts, and prosodic evidence drawn from corpora of 70 television drama series and 142 audiorecorded natural conversations, I demonstrate that the Korean connective construction hakonun 'after having done,' which comprises ha 'do', ko 'and' and the topic marker nun and indicates a temporal sequence, has developed into a final particle that encodes a speaker's stance of criticism and complaint. I show that the source, hakonun, has routinely been used in expressing concessive relations between two sequential events that go against the speaker's expectation ('counter-expectation'), and thus, is frequently used to challenge a hearer (e.g., 'after having done many evil deeds, how can you ask for my help?'). Through this use, the speaker's negative affect and stance of disapproval have become semanticized with hakonun. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of (inter)subjectification and insubordination, I propose that hakonun and Japanese shi 'and' constitute another case of crosslinguistically similar development of connectives becoming final particles. McGloin and Konishi (2010) argue that through its frequent use in the context of counter-expectati

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Author

Minju Kim

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)