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A study on the meaning of conjunctive ‘-(u)rago’

Park, Keun Young 1

1국민대학교

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ABSTRACT

Park, Keun Young. 2015. A study on the meaning of conjunctive ‘-(u)rago’. Korean Semantics, 50. First, this study examined the synchronic evolution of the form of '-(u)rago'. It is believed that '-(u) rago' originated from '-(u)rago([imperative/demand] indirect quotative)#ha(quotation verb)+ -go(conjunctive)'. In this syntagm, 'go'(quotative)) and 'ha-' ('say') was frequently abbreviated or weakened, and the clitic '-(u)ra# -go' started to be used as a single conjunctive '-(u)rago'. Second, this study discovered that the meaning of [desire] and [causative] are derived from the meaning of [imperative/demand] and the meaning of [purpose] is then derived from these meanings. The meaning of [purpose] is derived under the following conditions: (1) when an action verb (except speech verb) is followed by and is related to the meaning conveyed in the preceding utterance(in this case, the action can be inferred from the preceding utterance) and (2) when the event in a subsequent sentence starts before the event in a preceding sentence. Finally, this study found that the evolution of the meaning of '-(u)rago' was accompanied by morphological and syntactical changes in the conjunctive and underwent layering with other [purpose] conjunctives, which have other etymologies.

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