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A Cross-Linguistic Approach to complementizer ‘之’

  • Journal of Chinese Language and Literature
  • 2020, (85), pp.121-145
  • DOI : 10.15792/clsyn..85.202012.121
  • Publisher : Chinese Literary Society Of Yeong Nam
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Received : November 10, 2020
  • Accepted : December 17, 2020
  • Published : December 31, 2020

Hyang Lan Park 1

1경북대학교 인문학술원

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ABSTRACT

This study aims to discuss the Zhi from the perspective of cross- linguistics by seeing Zhi as a type of a complementizer that appears in the inner structure of subject-predicate. In the first place, it examines the universality of a complementizer through the examples of Korean and English. Based on this, the particularity of 之 as a complementizer in ancient Chinese will be discussed in this study. Second of all, it examines the correspondence relations and conditions of the complemen- tizers of three languages by comparing the examples of complementizer ‘之’ with English and Korean translation, used in the book titled Mengzi, which is the representative literature in the pre-qin period. Lastly, it investigates the origin and cause of extinction of a complementizer, ‘之’ from the typological perspective.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.