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The aim of this paper is to put a full spotlight on Korean evidentiality markers and to explore their functions and distributions. This paper claims that contemporary Korean has a three term evidential system, consisting of the retrospective firsthand evidential -te-, the inferential evidential -napo-, and the reportive/quotative evidential -ay. This paper also reports that Korean is capable of marking multiple modes of access to linguistic content, which is typologically unique. Then, this paper discusses the speaker’s cognitive effort that is found in common in the construal of the three markers: to manipulate conceptual distance between him/her and the focal event. It also discusses plausibility of the proposed system that they constitute. The discussion includes comparison of the system with others proposed in the literature.
