This study is on the morphosyntactic grammaticalization of upon sentences '- m/-n ttemun, ppon, jeon' in Jeju Dialect.
Upon noun sentences '- m/-n ttemun, ppon, jeon' in Jeju Dialect is ungrammatical but it is grammatical and natural among old-age gr ...
This study is on the morphosyntactic grammaticalization of upon sentences '- m/-n ttemun, ppon, jeon' in Jeju Dialect.
Upon noun sentences '- m/-n ttemun, ppon, jeon' in Jeju Dialect is ungrammatical but it is grammatical and natural among old-age group in Jeju. The patterns of '-gi ttemun, ppon, jeon' and '- m/-n ttemun, ppon, jeon' are coexistence in this group.
The purpose of this study is to clarify ‘-ㅁ, -ㄴ, -ㄹ’, which are combined to the tense of Jeju dialect, as pre-final endings in aspects, are gerund nominalizer of ancient Korean. Below is the result of the study based on this purpose.
First, the proto function of ‘-ㅁ, -ㄴ, -ㄹ’ which interfere to the dialect’s interrogative sentence, to the predicate of a sentence and relativization by upon noun; ‘ttamun/ppun’ is gerund nomnalizer.
Second, in an interrogative sentence, grammaticalization of ‘-ㅁ, -ㄴ’ can be found easily.
One of the examples of the earliest step of grammaticalization of ‘-ㅁ, -ㄴ’ can be found in ‘i-da’ sentence. But in the next step, getting into compounded endings, the form of nominalizer is fading and the function of tense-aspect is expanding. Examples are ‘-amsi’/-eomsi-‘, imperfect-continuance pre-final endings, ‘-am-/-eom-‘, imperfect pre-final endings, ‘*-ansi-/*-eon-‘, perfect-continuance pre-final endings, and ‘-an-/-eon-‘, perfect pre-final endings. Especially, combination of morphemes with imperfect-continuance pre-final endings and perfect-continuance pre-final endings is changed into ‘sida’, nominalizer+’existence’ verbe. In case of the latter one, perfect tense, ‘-ㄴ-‘ loses functions of nominalizer and instead, the function of tense and aspect is strengthened.
Third, ‘-ㅁ/-ㄴ, 뿐/때문’, dicuss consistute relativization, and suggest possibility which can be considered the structure before the compound sentence which is composed of embedded sentence and matrix sentence.
That is, at least ‘-ㅁ’ is confirmed that it is a gerund in an ancient Korean, ‘-ㄴ’, places in same syntactical condition and should also be recognized as a nominalizer. If those probabilities become true, the ‘-ㅁ/-ㄴ 뿐/때문’ in this dialect might be considered in the structure of ‘nominalizer+partical’.