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Change of Distribution of the Allomorphs of the Ending {-sʌb}

  • DONAM OHMUNHAK
  • Abbr : 돈암
  • 2020, 38(), pp.359~388
  • DOI : 10.17056/donam.2020.38..359
  • Publisher : The Donam Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature > History of Korean Literature
  • Received : November 25, 2020
  • Accepted : December 28, 2020
  • Published : December 31, 2020

PARK POOJA 1

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ABSTRACT

This paper examined the distribution environments of the allomorphs and the ending {-sʌb}, which appeared in early modern Korean, with the aim to examine its changes. This paper first analyzed the distribution environments of the allomorphs of the ending {-sʌb}, which are ‘-sʌb,’ ‘-ʌb,’ and ‘-jʌb,’ by century, from the seventeenth to nineteenth century. The changes found in the distribution of the allomorphs were as follows. First, the environment in which ‘-jʌb’ was realized in the nineteenth century was replaced with the allomorph ending of ‘-sʌb,’ which showed that the simplification of the allomorph ‘-jʌb’ to ‘-sʌb’ took place in the nineteenth century. The time difference with the pre-final ending was caused as the changes in the pre-final ending in the eighteenth century led to the simplification of the allomorph ending ‘-jʌb’ to ‘-sʌb’ under the same environment. The nineteenth century was thus a period when the allomorph of the ending ‘-sʌb’ was simplified into its allomorph ‘-sʌb.’ Second, although records do not confirm which allomorphs of either ‘-sʌb’ or ‘-ʌb’ were distributed after /n/ and /m/, it is highly likely that it was ‘-sʌb’ that was realized. In other words, the allomorph ‘-ʌb’ had already been reduced to be distributed after vowels and /r/, and was thus simplified into ‘-sʌb’ after /n/ and /m/, where ‘-ʌb’ would have been originally distributed. Third, the reaction, through which ‘-jʌb’ would have coexisted in the distribution environment for ‘-sʌb,’ did not take place in the endings. While it was because the allomorph ‘-jʌb’ lacked the power, as it originated from the addressee-honorific pre-final ending {-sʌb-}, this paper also posited that in the case of the endings, the allomorph ‘-jʌb’ disappeared faster than the pre-final ending.

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