≪釋迦如來十地修行記≫의 조동사

Abstract

This paper carried out a full-scale analysis of the auxiliary verb that appeared in Seokgayeoraesipjisuhaenggi(釋迦如來十地修行記). As a result of the analysis, the following conclusion was drawn: First, 18 kinds of auxiliary verbs appeared in Seokgayeoraesipjisuhaenggi. Nine of them belong to the class of ‘ability’, five to the class of ‘will’, and four to the class of ‘obligation’. Second, most of the auxiliary verbs that appeared in Seokgayeoraesipjisuhaenggi were frequently used during the period of modern Chinese after Tang and Song Dynasty. However, there were no examples of auxiliary verbs that had been newly used since the Yuan and Ming Dynasty, such as ‘gai(該)’ and ‘suo(索)’. Third, the frequency of occurrence of ‘neng(能)’, ‘ke(可)’, ‘de(得)’, ‘kan(堪)’ is relatively high in ‘ability’ auxiliary verbs. Most of the sentences in which these appeared show polysemous phenomenon, only in certain combinations, such as dynamic ‘ability’ and epistemic ‘possibility’, dynamic ‘circumstantial’ and deontic ‘permission’ or ‘evaluation’. Fourth, the frequency of occurrence of ‘yu(欲)’, ‘ken(肯)’, ‘gan(敢)’ is relatively high in ‘ability’ auxiliary verbs. Their semantic functions are relatively simple, all representing ‘volition’. There were no polysemous auxiliary verbs, such as ‘dang(當)’ or ‘yao(要)’. Fifth, the frequency of occurrence of ‘obligation’ auxiliary verbs is not high overall. Among them, ‘dang(當)’ and ‘xu(須)’ were relatively used. ‘dang(當)’, ‘yi(宜)’, ‘he(合)’ used in the text are all polysemous. They can both express deontic [duty] and epistemic [possibility].