접속어미 ‘-어다가’와 ‘-어서’에 대해서

Abstract

In the modern language, ‘-eodaga’ and ‘-eoseo’ are described as conjunctional ending presenting time based order relationship of antecedent and postcedent clauses in terms of meaning perspective. It is necessary to clearly look into its meaning and usage as their meanings are similarly described and their usage may overlap depending on the language environment. Hence, this research looks into how ‘-eodaga’ and ‘-eoseo’are used from the medieval age as well as their syntactic characteristics. Afterwards, it also tries to compare use of these two conjunctive ending. The ‘-eodaga’ is a conjunctive ending which allows sequential happening of the following action based on the preceding action. This also has a meaning of ‘movement’ towards a thing or subject. A sentence connected by ‘-eoseo’ shows sequential and continuous action and status but depending on the following sentence, it could be simply a sentence implying preceding action or status or others. Furthermore, this is used differently except the case when subject and object of antecedent and postcedent clauses with transitive verb are the same. In case of ‘-eodaga’ this is a form of ‘gajyeodaga,’ ‘deryeodaga’ and ‘mosyeodaga’ that is used as an idiom in modern language. However, for ‘-eoseo’ if this is not combined with ‘deri-’ but used together with verb such as ‘mosi-’ and ‘gajii-’ this implies the meaning and cause of the following sentence. The ‘-eodaga’ can be used with auxiliary predicate ‘not(du)-’, ‘ju-’ but ‘-eoseo’ cannot. For ‘-eoseo’ is a precedent predicate which can be used together with transitive verb as well as intransitive verb and adjective. Those sentences connected by ‘-eoseo’ can make antecedent clause as a tool or method of the postcedent clause. Furthermore, this changes verb that cannot be the object of the postcedent clause into antecedent verb when combined with ‘masi-, samki-, ’deuliki-, ‘meok-,’ and ‘eobsae-.’