Abstract: This paper aims to observe closely how genitive case-markers were used in the later middle Korean. The genitive case has the function that forms noun phrase combining a preceding noun and a following noun in the Korean. This is almost same in the later middle Korean. The genitive case-marker ‘애/의’ and ‘ㅅ’ which used being quite distinct from each other appeared in the later middle Korean. While ‘애/의’ was used going after a preceding noun which was an inhonorific human noun, ‘ㅅ’ was used going after a preceding noun which was an honorific human noun or inhuman noun. On this account, the most Korean lingusists have concluded that the genitive case-marker ‘애/의’ and ‘ㅅ’ in the later middle Korean were choiced and used according to the kind of a preceding noun. Nevertheless, an exceptional examples of the genitive case-markers had appeared already in the later middle Korean. They shows clearly that the function of the genitive case-marker can’t be explained only according to the kind of a preceding noun. Therefore, I examined not only the kind of a preceding noun but also that of a following noun on an exceptional examples of the genitive case-marker in the later middle Korean. Plus, I looked into relation between a preceding noun and a following noun in meaning. As a result, I could confirm that the examples of ‘ㅅ’ used going after a preceding noun which was an inhonorific human noun were fossilized forms, that those of ‘?/의’ used going after a preceding noun which was an honorific human noun or inhuman noun were reformation forms.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
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