선어말어미 ‘-는-’의 문법 의미 고찰

Abstract

This paper aims at revealing what grammatical meaning '-nɨn-' has in modern Korean. The main discussion is as below. Firstly, this paper discussed the grammatical meaning of the word '-nɨn-' in Korean. Through the discussion process, this paper found that '-nɨn-' is grammaticalized changing from the progressive form to the grammatical form that represents the present tense. The form of ‘-nɨn-’ originally had grammatical meaning of process aspect in the medieval period, but the meaning of ‘-nɨn-’ has been changed from it to present tense because ‘-ko’ snatched the process aspect from one of ‘-nɨn-’. However, it was also confirmed that the usage was so limited that it could only appear with the ending forms of '-da, -ga, -ga, -gun'. This paper suggested that the use of '-nɨn-' which was actively used in the Middle Ages was also related to the grammaticalization of '-ko iť-.' In most cases, '-ko i' may appear in most situations, including situations in which '-nɨn-' can be used publicly, contrasting with the constraints '-nɨn-' has. The second, I suggest that the lexical meaning of adverbs co-occurred to –nɨn- in the same context, should be considered in order to confirm the meanings of it. In other words, The meaning of the grammatical meaning of '-nɨn-' is fixed when it appears concurrently with 'thɨllim əs’i, panɨsi', etc., indicates the meaning of certainty and 'speakers will' in the situation of first-person subject. It was also confirmed that the meaning of 'habit, repetition' can be interpreted when appearing with 'daily, yearly, or self-reliance'. The third, this paper sugeest that '-nɨn-' could be interpreted as 'progress of action' if it appears with ‘come and go’ verb. In addition that, I suggest that the grammatical meaning of '-nɨn-' would be fixed before considerring the discoursal context as well as sentences containing '-nɨn-'