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This paper examines the Korean suffix -ess. It is argued that the suffix -ess is ambiguous between the perfect (anterior) and the indirect evidential. It is shown that the suffix -ess functions as an indirect evidential (an inferential evidential based on the result state) when it co-occurs with the suffixes -te or -ney. It is also argued that the perfect -ess and the indirect evidential -ess
share the three core meaning components―a prior event described by the sentence, its consequent state (result state), and the epistemic modal that relates these two. However, the difference between the indirect evidential -ess and the perfect (anterior) -ess lies in the way the three components are combined. Thus, the proposed analysis shows that the perfect and the indirect evidential are closely related, and that, at the same time, the two are distinct
categories.
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2. The suffix -ess as a perfect
2.1. Is -ess a perfective?
2.2. Is -ess a past tense?
2.3. -Ess is a perfect
3. -Ess is also an indirect evidential
3.1. Evidentials and the suffixes -te and -ney
3.2. Two related functions: perfect and indirect evidential
4. Izvolski’s(1997) analysis of the indirect evidential
5. Analysis of the perfect -ess and the indirect evidential -ess
6. Conclusion
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