@article{ART001676027},
author={Yang Young Hee},
title={A Correlative Study on Addressing Suffix‘-nim’ and Bound Noun ‘nim’},
journal={Korean Language & Literature},
issn={1229-1730},
year={2012},
number={81},
pages={31-53},
doi={}
TY - JOUR
AU - Yang Young Hee
TI - A Correlative Study on Addressing Suffix‘-nim’ and Bound Noun ‘nim’
JO - Korean Language & Literature
PY - 2012
VL - null
IS - 81
PB - Korean Language & Literature
SP - 31
EP - 53
SN - 1229-1730
AB - Byorigin,‘-nim’wastheaddressingsuffixinordertoshow intimacyand respecttothecloseindividualssuchasfamilyorrelatives.Therefore,thisterm containsthefunctionsof[+intimacy,+individual,+honor]asillustrationof abeonim (father/father-in-law),eomeonim(mother/mother-in-law),orabeonim (brother),andhyoungnim (sister-in-law).
Incontrast,atthebeginningoftheModernKoreanperiod,thissuffix transformedintohavingthefunctionsof[-intimacy,-individual,+honor].
Thebasicgroundofthistransitionistominimizethegrammaticaldeficiency caused by the disappearing vocative postposition,‘ha’.That is,this disappearanceofvocativepostposition‘ha’formedthelackofthegrammatical system incallingrespectfulpeoplesothatspeakersstartedusing‘-nim’which includesthequalityof[+honor]bymeansofsupplyingthedeficiency.By linking‘-nim’afterthetermsof‘status,class’,thepresentusagesuchas ‘kwajangnim (section chief),kyosunim (professor),bucheonim (Buddha)appears.
In the process of this transformation,‘-nim’s originalfunction of [+intimacy]didnotusedaftertheModernKoreanperiod,thegrammatical lossinappellationhappenedintheend.Thispaperregards‘nim’which appearedonpurposetoreplacethedeficiencyasboundnoun.Thismodegives boththefeelingofintimacyandtheattitudeofrespectintheformalsituation,forexample,‘SongChaerinnim,Chaerinnim,Songnim,Chamnamunim’
KW - ‘suffix-nim’;‘boundnounnim’;[+intimacy;+individual;-intimacy;-individual];vocativepostposition
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Yang Young Hee. (2012). A Correlative Study on Addressing Suffix‘-nim’ and Bound Noun ‘nim’. Korean Language & Literature, 81, 31-53.
Yang Young Hee. 2012, "A Correlative Study on Addressing Suffix‘-nim’ and Bound Noun ‘nim’", Korean Language & Literature, no.81, pp.31-53. Available from: doi:
Yang Young Hee "A Correlative Study on Addressing Suffix‘-nim’ and Bound Noun ‘nim’" Korean Language & Literature 81 pp.31-53 (2012) : 31.
Yang Young Hee. A Correlative Study on Addressing Suffix‘-nim’ and Bound Noun ‘nim’. 2012; 81 : 31-53. Available from: doi:
Yang Young Hee. "A Correlative Study on Addressing Suffix‘-nim’ and Bound Noun ‘nim’" Korean Language & Literature no.81(2012) : 31-53.doi:
Yang Young Hee. A Correlative Study on Addressing Suffix‘-nim’ and Bound Noun ‘nim’. Korean Language & Literature, 81, 31-53. doi:
Yang Young Hee. A Correlative Study on Addressing Suffix‘-nim’ and Bound Noun ‘nim’. Korean Language & Literature. 2012; 81 31-53. doi:
Yang Young Hee. A Correlative Study on Addressing Suffix‘-nim’ and Bound Noun ‘nim’. 2012; 81 : 31-53. Available from: doi:
Yang Young Hee. "A Correlative Study on Addressing Suffix‘-nim’ and Bound Noun ‘nim’" Korean Language & Literature no.81(2012) : 31-53.doi:
