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Kwon, Iksoo. 2015. Revisiting the Korean Sentence-Final Suffix –Ney Once More: Response to Chung (2014). Korean Journal of Linguistics, 40-3, 287-305. This squib aims to show that Chung’s (2014) efforts to undermine Kwon’s (2013) counterargument against her original claim (Chung 2012) with regard to the identity of the sentence final suffix -ney are not successful. Her argument that -ney is not an epistemic modal marker loses its ground in that it DOES interact with epistemic modal adverbials, in that -ta does not belong to the same grammatical paradigm as –ney (rather, -e/-a does), and in that -ney still accompanies with conceptual distancing. Furthermore, another main claim of Chung (2014), which is that -ney should be given an assertive mood marker indicating that the proposition in question is informative to the speaker, would not be convincing until Chung provides clearer explanation of relationship between the categories of assertive mood and of her own ‘spatial deictic tense,’ the latter of which she originally claims -ney belongs to. Based on the discussion, this squib suggests that -ney can still be claimed to be an epistemic modal marker with mirativity and further shows that its conceptual distancing actually accounts for some seemingly non-canonical examples in Chung’s accounts (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies).