[V-오ᄃᆡ] 인용 구문과 [V-기를] 인용 구문에 대한 일고찰

Abstract

This paper examines the syntactic and semantic characteristics of two quoted constructions, which have a predicate-quoted clause word order: [V-otʌy] quoted construction (OQC) of Middle Korean and [V-kilul] quoted construction (KQC) of Modern Korean. OQCs have been explained as the syntactic derivation by insertion or omission of hʌ- in earlier studies. However, these views have several logical problems in terms of syntactic principles. So we noted that OQCs were –otʌy connective clause, and argued that these constructions are different in terms of syntactic structure of following clause: [NP-i V-otʌy S] have following clause which consist of [S] only; [NP-i V-otʌy S hʌ-] have ones which consist of [S] and quoted verb hʌ-. In addition, we argued that quoted verb hʌ is a generic verb in two OQCs, not a proverb regarded in earlier studies. KQC developed from [V-kilul AdvP hʌ-] of Middle Korean in Modern Korean. In earlier studies AdvP hʌ of this construction was restructured as a transitive verb. However, this reconstruction cannot be accepted considering the historical changes, which these constructions were developed into reduplication constructions by V copy. In addition, we considered KQCs were shared by named constructions since named constructions and quoted constructions have shared common syntactic constructions in Korean. Also, we considered [V-kilul] topic constructions as unrelated to the development of KQC.