‘-게도’형 부사어의 문장부사절로서의 가능성 = The Possibility of the ‘-gedo’ Adverbial as a Sentence Adverbial Clause

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study aims to investigate the morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties of the ‘-gedo’ sentence adverbial by analyzing usage examples drawn from the Modu Corpus compiled by the National Institute of Korean Language. Morphologically, the ‘-gedo’ form, which constitutes the sentence adverbial, can combine not only with adjectives but also with verbs and the copula; however, such combinations are restricted to predicates that describe static qualities or states. Syntactically, the ‘-gedo’ sentence adverbial can be regarded as a productive syntactic construction that forms a clause. This observation is supported by several pieces of evidence: (i) even when the internal cohesion of the construction is high, other sentence constituents may intervene; (ii) syntactic connective constructions can co-occur with ‘-gedo’; (iii) negation may appear within a ‘-gedo’ adverbial clause; (iv) the form ‘-gedo’ can attach to honorific prefinal endings; and (v) the predicate’s argument or adjunct target realized within the clause supports the clause-level status of the construction. Semantically, the ‘-gedo’ sentence adverbial, beyond expressing an evaluative stance toward the following clause, appears to encode mirativity—that is, information not yet internalized within the speaker’s knowledge system. This mirative nuance seems to be manifested through the particle ‘do,’ which combines with the adverbial ending ‘-ge.’