보조사 ‘뿐’의 분포와 의미

Abstract

This study identifies the meaning and distributive characteristics of the auxiliary particle “ppun” by analyzing corpus examples. Thus far, “ppun” has generally been known to have a limited distribution. However, according to the observation in this study, the auxiliary particle “ppun” may come after the verbal ending, substantive, and particle and also be followed by a grammatical case marker and a semantic case marker. When “ppun” comes in the place of the subject or object, it is always accompanied by a grammatical case marker, which is different from other auxiliary particles. Moreover, in many cases, predicates such as “ida” and “anida” come afterward, but sometimes “ppun” is used with a general predicate depending on which particle follows. The meaning revealed by the auxiliary particle “ppun” is a semantic relationship between “focus” combined with “ppun” and “alternative set” as an element that it brings, indicating that the alternative becomes “exclusive” by choosing focus. Therefore, when “ppun” is used with “ida” in an affirmative statement, it indicates that the selected focus is small in number or does not amount to much while simultaneously excluding alternatives. On the other hand, when “ppun” is used with “anida” in a negative statement, the exclusive relationship is negated, thereby affirming both focus and alternatives. Here, the focus of “ppun” is the expectation that this would naturally happen, and the unexpected alternative has the same attribute.