‘같이’ 의미 분화의 통시적 고찰

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the diachronic and semantic functions of ‘ᄀᆞ티’ in the changing process of Korean from Middle Korean and Early Modern Korean and their mutual connections in a solid manner and thus find clues for the issue of setting the morphological qualification of the conjugated forms and derivatives of ‘ᄀᆞᆮᄒᆞ다’-style words. First, ‘ᄀᆞ티’ constructions omitting the ‘과’-type postpositions have a primary goal of stating the act of a comparison target or the agency of the subject in the higher sentence. Here, the comparison criterion is the “quantitative or qualitative degree(level) of the act of the comparison target.” In such cases, ‘ᄀᆞ티’ still maintains the basic semantic function and case dominance of the adjective, ‘ᄀᆞᆮᄒᆞ다.’ Secondly, ‘ᄀᆞ티’ constructions omitting ‘이’-type postpositions have a primary goal of stating the attributes of a comparison target and make its meaning more concrete by alluding to some attributes of the comparison criterion. Here, ‘ᄀᆞ티’ used to perform the role of a predicate that expressed the partial agreement between the comparison target and the comparison criterion. It is estimated that it went through a grammaticalization process as a postposition as its original semantic function gradually weakened and was specialized into a form performing a single independent grammatical function, “like a certain characteristic of the word before.” From this point of view, an assumption is possible that the original form of the postposition ‘같이’ in Modern Korean originated from ‘ᄀᆞ티’ constructions omitting a postposition in ‘이’-type constructions.