한국어 인식 양태의 단상화 = Grounding of Epistemic Modality in Korean

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The modality marker is a grounding element that fixes information related to the speech situation to understand the sentence based on the reality of the event. Epistemic modality reflects a more subjective and abstract construal that indicates the speaker's degree of confidence in the possibility that something may be true. The profiled event is grounded as a conceived reality that the speaker of offstage as a conceptualizer accepts by epistemic modality. The degrees of epistemic evaluation are explained from the perspective of force dynamics and conceptual blending. The epistemic certainty is accepted as a projected reality by strong evolutionary momentum affecting the speaker's judgment, while the epistemic possibility is grounded as a potential reality by the removal of the obstacle by weak evidence. These new epistemic meanings of modality are emergent through the conceptual blending that builds input spaces, the blended space, and the mapping between them. The tense markers can represent various degrees of epistemic certainty, and the epistemic modality interacts with the evidential system in terms of immediacy to the speaker and increments of distance from him.