A novel dichotomy of the Korean adverb nemwu in opinion classification

• Jeesun Nam ^[1]
  1. [1] Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

     Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

     Corea del Sur

     
• Localización: Studies in language: International Journal Sponsored by The Foundation "Foundations of Language", ISSN 0378-4177, Vol. 38, Nº 1, 2014, págs. 171-209
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1075/sl.38.1.05nam
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• Resumen

  • While the adverb nemwu, roughly equivalent to the intensifier too in English, has been considered an adverb that intensifies gradable predicates in excess, thereby provoking a negative interpretation, it can also be used to emphasize a positive evaluation in online subjective texts. Moreover, even in the sentences conveying a negative evaluation, only some of the occurrences of nemwu are used as a polarity reversing valence shifter. This paper proposes a novel dichotomy for the usages of nemwu, consisting of ‘Intensifying Adverbs’ (IAs) and ‘Opinion Introducers’ (OIs), and examines the necessary contexts for determining the function of the adverb.