The purpose of this study is to review grammaticalization in Korean by examining synchronously the grammaticalization process of nouns and verbs. First, I define grammaticalization as the process whereby lexical items and constructions come in certain...
The purpose of this study is to review grammaticalization in Korean by examining synchronously the grammaticalization process of nouns and verbs. First, I define grammaticalization as the process whereby lexical items and constructions come in certain linguistic contexts to serve grammatical functions(Hopper&Traugott 1993). Second, I set up 'inseparably linked → coherent' grammaticalization process and examine grammaticalization process of nouns and verbs based on their tyntactic and semantic freatures, that is '-ki maryeonita, -un mayangita → '-ul theoida' in nouns, and '-eo bota → -eo gajigo' in verbs.