법률 텍스트 문장의 문법성

Abstract

The present paper takes as its object of study the sentences from Korea's representative legal texts, such as provisions, court rulings and public statements of lawyers, and examines their grammaticality. Sentences from these texts are analyzed in terms of three aspects : word choice, use of grammatical elements, and sentence structure. Such analysis shows that, even if the historical and circumstantial elements of Korea's legal texts are taken into account, these legal texts are still laden with too many problems. In chapter 4, the texts of court rulings are analyzed historically, in terms of their vocabulary and their sentence structure. Such analysis revealed that the greatest change that appeared in the texts of court rulings was the change in vocabulary. On the sentence level, it was observed that as the sentences became modernized, the ending expressions changed, the sentences became shorter, and the use of commas increased.