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An Jeong A, Nam Kyoung Woan. 2012. A Study on the Modal Expression on the Diary Text of 1st grade students of Elementary School. Korean Semantics, 39. The purpose of this study is to investigate the using aspect of modal expression on the elementary school students' diary text. In chapter2, we investigate the pattern of modal expressions in their diary text that is divided into lexical type and grammatical type, and also into simple construction type and complex construction type. In chapter3, we classified the diary text into six semantic types according to the base meaning of modal expression, i.e. emotion, intention, supposition, possibility, assertion, obligation. Naturally the modal expressions in elementary students' diary text is less diverse than general adults' text, but we can find their some special features. Firstly, in the initial time of 1st elementary school, the modal expression that shows the speaker's thoughts or emotions is hardly appeared, their text is constructed by just statements about events of that day or by just simple sentence commenting the whole events. After that, they can organize the complex structure of <Events+Comments> by each events separatively. Secondly, the most frequent misuses in the modal expressions are caused by mismatching the other grammatical unit like tense, aspect morphemes.

일기텍스트(diary text), 텍스트성(textuality), 양태 표현(modal expression), 의존명사 구성(the construction of bound noun), 보조용언(auxiliary verb), 명제(proposition), 감정(emotion), 의지(intention), 추측(supposition), 가능성(possibility), 단정(assertion), 의무(obligation)