A Study of the Processes of Grammaticization in Korean Noun

This paper intends to describe the processes of grammaticization of the Korean noun. 1 define grammaticization as the process whereby lexical items come in certain linguistic contexts to serve grammatical functions, and, once grammaticalized, continue to develop new grammatical functions. By studying grammaticization, there is a ‘cline of grammaticality’ of the following type, “content item> grammatical word> clitic> inflectional affix". It has as its leftmost component a lexical, or content, item and moves through stages of being syntactic (grammatical word, clitic) and finally morphological (inflectional affix). Firstly, in the case of the Korean noun, an independent noun spreads a dependent noun by semantic bleaching. Secondly, the dependent noun integrates with NP complement construction which includes a complementizer( -ni n/-i n/-i 1), dependent noun, and case marker or verb stem by reanalysis and analogy. Lastly, the integrated unit of syntactic structure components become a morphological grammatical element due to fusion and change of semantic function. Typically 1 dealt with the process where the independent noun ‘ta’ becomes of the grammatical elements, preceding sentence ending. In this process the dependent noun ‘ta’ (circumstance) in modern Korean diverged from the independent noun ‘td(h)’ (a site) in middle Korean. Further the dependent noun ‘td’ fused into complementizer( -i-l) and verb stem ‘1-’. So this integrated NP complement construction ‘-i-ltæ-’ functions as a modality marker (speaker’s intention) in present. In conclusion, this paper shows the tendency of grammaticization ‘from syntactic construction to morphological constructions'

On the Syntactic Properties and Meaning of Conjunction Ending -Killae(길래)

국어 연결어미 중-길래는 기존의 연구에서 거의 거론되지 않았다. -길래만을 단독으로 다룬 글은 물론 찾을 수 없고， 연결어미 전반을 논의한 글에서도 대부분 -길래를 연결어미에 등재시키지 않고 있다.1 그려고 -길래에 대해 조금이라도 언급한 연구에서도2 -길래를 독립적인 연결어미로 보기보다는 연결 어미 -기에를 다루는 항목에서 -기에의 이형태로 국한시켜 -길래의 통사， 의 미적 특성이 -기에와 같은 것으로 간주해왔다. 이러한 논의는 -기에로 연결된 절을 -길래로 교체시킴이 가능하다는 것을 보여주면서 주장을 뒷받침하고 있다. 이와 같은 연구결과는 -기에와 -길래가 분포한 전반적인 언어 자료 조사없이 -기에가 아무런 제약없이 -길래로 교체될 수 있다는 직관에 따랐기 때문으로 보인다. This paper deals with the syntactic properties and meaning of the conjunction ending -kiIlae. Because the syntactic restriction and meaning of -killae are not in accordance with -kie, it is argued to be taken as one of the conjunction endings -killae which has been dealt with as an allomorph of -kie in preceding studies. When changing -kies clause to -kilIaes clause, first, I propose that the conjunction ending -kiIlae is different from the conjunction ending -kie and -kiIlae is an informal style contrary to the formal style of -kie. The basic meaning of -kiIlae is the REASON of the speakers activity which relates not to speakers wiIl(internal) but to the external situation. The conjunction ending -killae has syntactic restrictions different from -kie