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Grammaticalization and meaning change of Panmal style ending -ge

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2011, 36(), pp.391-417
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

조은영 1 Lee HanMin 1

1이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper investigates the usage of Korean ending -ge as a final ending. According to our view, the phenomenon of which connective endings functioning as final endings is due to the grammaticalization. In Korean, especially in spoken language, some connective endings such as -ge are used as final endings at the end of the sentences. Final ending -ge which is grammaticalized from connective ending -ge shows diverse meanings and usage. Thus we contemplate grammaticalization phenonmenon―from connenctive ending -ge to final ending -ge―and examine the meaning change and syntactic change that occur in the process of the grammaticalization. The significance of this paper is that we do not merely list the various meaning of final ending -ge, but rather give attention to the ’process of the meaning change’ and ’relationship between the different meanings’. The subject of this paper is restricted to the Final ending -ge which is grammaticalized from connective ending -ge. Therefore Hage style ’-ge’ is excludes and the final ending -ge orginated from adverbial ending -ge is also excluded. Our research materials are mostly based on the spoken language corpus data of 21 Century Sejong project and TV drama scripts. For supplementation and objectivity, we also refer to example sentences in the dictionaries.

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