‘-는지’의 통사적 특성과 의미 연구 - 비종결어미 ‘-는지’를 중심으로-

Abstract

This study attempts to analyze the syntactic characteristics and meaning of ‘-nunji(는지)’ by examing the actual uses of non sentence final ending ‘-nunji(는지)’ through focusing on the usage in the Korean dictionary. The ‘-nunji(는지)’ which leads a noun clause, basically has the meaning of the factive, ‘the undecided’. ‘The undecided’ is a concept that can cover both ‘unknown information’ and ‘unexposed information’ in the meaning of including items that lack specific information. The verbs taking ‘-nunji(는지)’ noun clause are largely divided into five categories in relation to ‘knowledge’, and the nature of ‘the undecided’ of ‘-nunji(는지)’ noun clause varies depending on what types of predictes they are. The connective ending ‘-nunji(는지)’ has ‘the unkown’ and it has the ‘strong’ unknown or the ‘weak’ unknown depending on the context. The connective ending ‘-nunji(는지)’ does not have a single meaning, and the syntactic characteristics of it vary the meaning. The ‘-nunji(는지)’ junction sentences are divided into two categories according to the semantic relationship of the preceding clause and the following clause. The first is the case that the preceding clause indicates the fact that the subject of the following clause is curious to know and the following clause indicates ‘the action that the subject of the following clause attempts in order to solve the curiosity’. The second is the case that the preceding clause indicates ‘the cause guessed or the question cherished, by the speaker, which is based on the situation perceived directly’ and the following clause indicates ‘the situation directly perceived by the speaker’.