This papers purports to study a sentence pattern and speech level on '-guna', '-gun', '-gumeon', '-guryeo'.
Although the final-endingin in the Korean grammar, such as '-guna', '-gun', '-gumeon''-guryeo'(hereinafter,'-guna's), performs its duty as desc...
This papers purports to study a sentence pattern and speech level on '-guna', '-gun', '-gumeon', '-guryeo'.
Although the final-endingin in the Korean grammar, such as '-guna', '-gun', '-gumeon''-guryeo'(hereinafter,'-guna's), performs its duty as descriptive expression for conversation or as imperative for a demand, it is unable to keep its own area in a sentence pattern and speech level, due to morphological restriction and syntax restriction.
Accordingly, this study accessed by two methods and attempted research as to '-guna's. {gu} that is in the center of these endings, it was concluded as a discourse preparation phase of speaker's intuition, and compound ending including {gu} was concluded as a function of speaker and hearer's communication and demand. In this process, it was found that '-guna's had the meaning of [confirmation].
The study on two sentence patterns in which '-guna's with the meaning of [confirmation] functioned as ending was for presenting a reasonable ground that the ending of a declarative sentence, '-guna's, was not able to be integrated directly into the stem of action verb, and was not ending of an exclamatory sentence.
A declarative sentence is applicable to the stem of non-action verb that is directly integrated, and verbs stem and substantives that are integrated only through modal prefinal ending, while an imperative sentence is a case that '-guryeo' is directly integrated into the stem of action verb.
This study examined that the speech level as to '-guna's with the meaning of [confirmation] was classified into a formal form in the current grammar, in spite of a spoken style, and it is fulfilling its duty in Korean language as the most comfortable speech, although it is informal.
The result showed that the discourse structure of '-guna's had binary relationship of speaker and hearer. '-guna' and '-guryeo' indicating consideration for hearer show that the working of its composition displays 'open discourse structure,' while '-gun' and '-gumeon' that are deemed there is a psychological gap between speaker and hearer, show that the working of its composition indicates 'closed discourse structure.'
'-guna's that are unable to show '-seupnida style' respect hearer generally by means of '-gunyo' and '-gumyeonyo' corresponding to '-seupnida style,' which reduces the psychological gap between speaker and hearer in 'closed discourse structure,' and shows that '-yo' is necessary for treating hearer with respect.