Genesis of Korean sentence-ending suffixes: Grammaticalization of -canha, -ketun, and –nikka
Genesis of Korean sentence-ending suffixes: Grammaticalization of -canha, -ketun, and –nikka
- 주제(키워드) grammaticalization , Korean sentence-ending suffixes , -canha , -ketun , and –nikka
- 발행기관 고려대학교 언어정보연구소
- 발행년도 2015
- 총서유형 Journal
- UCI G704-SER000013215.2015..20.002
- KCI ID ART001971783
- 본문언어 영어
초록/요약
The aim of this paper is to discuss grammaticalization process ofthe three Korean sentence endings -canha, -ketun, and –nikka through the reviewof previous literature. These sentential-end markers in modern Korean historicallyevolved from connective markers (Lee & Park 1999; Koo & Rhee 2000). Thereview shows the evolution of these grammatical forms with new functions. Theoverview of studies also suggests that Korean as an agglutinativeSubject-Object-Verb language with rich morphological devices has a uniquepattern of grammaticalization contrary to that which occurs in Indo-Europeanlanguages, which are widely examined in grammaticalization studies.
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