Tense and Aspect in Korean

This comprehensive account of temporal expressions in Korean provides a more consistent, unified treatment of tense and aspect than in previous works on the language.It finds that only tense - the grammatical indicator of the relationship between event time and speech time - is obligatory in Korean, while aspect is not. This monograph provides a unified account of the behaviour of tense markers not only in main clauses, but also in subordinate, coordinate, relative, complement, and nominalized clauses.