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The aim of this paper is to shed light on the meaning of the construction ‘a relativizer- cwul  [complementizer]  -al - ‘know’ ’ in Korean, specifically on its semantic ambiguity between meaning ‘believe that . . .’ and meaning ‘know that . . .’. When it is followed exclusively by psych predicates in present-day Korean, particularly either  al-  ‘know’ or  molu-  ‘not.know,’  cwul  comes to have its extended function as a complementizer from its original sense meaning ‘method,’ or ‘way.’ I argue that the ambiguity belongs to the overall construction, which is licensed by the neutral epistemic stance encoded by the complementizer  cwul . I also contend that the  cwul al-  construction that contains the predicate  al-  ‘know’ shows asymmetrical usages of first and nonfirst-person subjects; the present-tense  cwul al-  construction with a first-person subject is not normally licensed. This paper employs mental-spaces theory to account for the ambiguity and the asymmetry, which stem from the covert interactions between the two viewpoints. I show that the theory captures the speaker's backgrounded knowledge with  backgrounded information accommodation , a specific mental-space evocation mechanism, which is crucial in the construal of the construction.

Knowing is not always knowing: The Korean cwul al- construction in mental-spaces theory