18세기 이후 한글 편지에 나타난 ‘-ᄉᆞᆸ-’ 변화 양상 – 송준길 가 한글 편지를 중심으로

Abstract

This study is aimed to the function changes of ‘-ᄉᆞᆸ(sap)-’ in letters of Song Jungil family since 17th century. The senders of letters are 61people, and the numbers of letters are 429 pieces. About 136 letters were deciphered. So this study is aim to remained 200 letters. Since the 17th century, ‘-ᄉᆞᆸ-’ demonstrates the function of enhancing the objective or modests the speaker to enhance the listener. Since the nineteenth century, the function of enhancing the objective remains a vocabulary, and it grammaticalizes as a ending of the ending of the listener. The letters of Han-gul are from the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century. To explain concretely, ‘-ᄉᆞᆸ-’ had been a pre-ending of objective honorific in 15th century before the change to a pre-ending of speaker modesty in 17th century. Since then it has been changed the speaker modesty to the listener honorific ending in 19th century. Today it is confirmed ‘-ㅂ/습니다’ ‘-ᄉᆞᆸ-’ shows the grammatical characteristic contemporaneousness but the letters are written that is why the grammatical forms are conservative. Although those features, this study has to be given the meaning of confirming the function changes ‘-ᄉᆞᆸ(sap)-’ This Hangeul letters have not been deciphered perfectly until now. They need to decipher in the next study.