처격 ‘애’, ‘에’의 생성 원인 고찰 - 고대 및 중세국어의 ‘’, ‘의’의 실현 양상을 토대로 -

Abstract

So far, according to the study of the locative case in Middle Korean, it has been shown that the locative case was realized as ‘애(aj)’, ‘에(əj)’, ‘(ʌj)’, and ‘의(ɨj)’ in Middle Korean. The study result, though, raises questions like "Were they all needed at that time?" or "What were the differences in function between them?"The paper is based on these ideas. The paper shows as follows. First, ‘(ʌj)’ and ‘의(ɨj)’ served as both the genitive case and the locative case in Ancient Korean. Second, ‘(ʌj)’ and ‘의(ɨj)’ served primarily as the genitive case in Middle Korean. However, ‘애(aj)’ and ‘에(əj)’ served as the genitive case under the word except the noun taken peculiar locative case. Third, ‘애(aj)’ and ‘에(əj)’ were formed in Middle Korean and the cause of their formation is in order to lighten the functional load of ‘(ʌj)’ and ‘의(ɨj)’. It seems that the growth of grammar consciousness contributed to the formation of ‘애(aj)’ and ‘에(əj)’ as well In this paper, based on grammatical phenomena in Ancient Korean, those in Middle Korean are interpreted. This approach is different from the existing way of interpreting grammatical phenomena in the history of Korean. On the premise that language phenomena are not disparate but intimately connected to each other between earlier times and later ones, the paper has significance in that it shows the linkage between grammatical phenomena in Ancient and Middle Korean.