On the classification of Korean sentence types
Hae-Yun Lee · Korean Semantics · 2015
In this paper we try to present the new classification of Korean sentence types, using the concept ``sentence mood`` which is understood as the complex of formal aspects and functional/semantic aspects. We cannot find any systematic classification from the previous researches, although there have been proposed various classifications of sentence types. Following the concept ``sentence mood``, we examine first morphological and syntactic properties of each sentence type, and then construct the interpretation of each sentence type by using discourse-based concepts such as CG(Common Ground), QS(Question Sets), and TDL(To-Do List). As a result, we conclude that Korean has 6 sentence moods such as declaratives, interrogatives, imperatives, exclamatives, promissives and exhortatives. In addition, we show that there are some implicational relations among the sentence moods.