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Lee, Chungmin. 2016. Expressing the Self: Psych Predicate and the Issue of Evidentiality. Journal of Linguistics, 41-4, 679-713. This work characterizes psych-predicates in Korean (and Japanese), attempting to explain why a third-person subject is infelicitous with a psych-predicate in PRESENT in Korean and Japanese as opposed to English (and French/Chinese). We focus on the status of the Experiencer (or ‘judge’ in the relativists’ term) in relation to other arguments (and higher attitude verbs) and examine the first-person subjectivity constraint via immunity to error through misidentification (IEM, Shoemaker 1968) and first-person authority (Davidson 1984). A speaker attributes her mental states/attitudes to her present self, presuming that she is not mistaken. An evidence acquisition event before speech time is claimed to be accommodated for a third-person subject to be acceptable with a psych-predicate in PRESENT in English. Predicates of personal taste as in “The cake is tasty” are also claimed to involve the first person Experiencer underlyingly. For accommodation of an evidence acquisition event, simulation theory and ‘spkokesperson’ effect are employed. Relevant cause and effect relations and consequent coerced event functions are also postulated. Interaction between psych-predicates and the first-person perceiver requiring direct evidential marker –te in Korean is also analyzed. The paper solves how a future event is referred to by -te. The subjective matter of first-person data is crucial also for the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness in philosophy of mind, cogntive science and even qunatum physics. (Seoul National University)