Abstract
In this paper, I make a formal semantic description of Korean conjunctive sentences which are headed by connective ending ‘-killay’. Through a critique of the previous formal semantic analysis of ‘-killay’ by Yeom(2012), I argue that ‘-killay’ has a direct evidential meaning which is interpreted as a kind of epistemic modal meaning, every type of ‘-killay’ conjunctive sentences has presuppositions that the consequent proposition is true and the consequent situation is stage-level, and the time of acquiring direct evidence about the antecedent situation precedes the time of the consequent situation which in turn precedes or overlaps the utterance time. The lexical semantic definition containing all these properties of ‘-killay’ is shown to make complete the semantic composition procedures of ‘-killay’ conjunctive sentences. (Yonsei University).
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