고대 국어 연구의 지름길, 향가(鄕歌) -<처용가>(處容歌)와 <도솔가>(兜率歌)를 중심으로-

Abstract

This paper is written for showing that analyses about HYANGGAs are able to play the role of a short road to know the system of Old Korean language. Because HYANGGAs are the best sources of Old Korean language in quality and quantity. Above all, it is very important that the writing system of HYANGGA was HYANGCHAL, which was our proper way with borrowing meaning and sound of Chinese characters. In this paper I can find many facts of Old Korean language with detailed analyses of even only two HYANGGAs, <CHEOYONGGA> and <DOSOLGA> and inference many aspects of the system of Old Korean language through them. So we can see that in Old Korean language there are many resemblances to grammartical systems of Middle Korean or Modern Korean language, like tense, case marker system etc., but there are also many different aspects to those, like adnominal final ending '-이(i)' or object-inflectional prefinal ending '-오-(o)' etc..