現代國語의 文體法에 대한 硏究 : 敍法體系(續) = Sentence-Types and Mood System in Modern Korean

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

1. The purpose of this paper is to establish sentence-types and to systematize mood categories on the basis of my previous analysis of sentence-final endings in Modern Korean.
2. It might be said that these are seven sentence-types from structural and semantic viewpoint. They can be divided into two main classes depending on whether the speaker wants to exert an influence on the will of the hearer or not. In the former class we must include not only ordinary Declarative and Exclamative but also Promissive. In the second class there are four types: Interrogative, Imperative, Propositive, and Preventive. The aim of these types is to influence the will of the hearer: Interrogative demands calling for a piece of information and the others call for action.
3.The above-mentioned sentence-types could be also divided into Volitive and Nonvolitive mood according to whether they contain an element of will or not: the speaker'psychological attitude could be represented through these sentence-types. The Non-volitive mood is expressed by the sentence-prefinal endings preceding Declarative,Interrogative and Exclamative markers. On the contrary, Volitive mood is represented by Promissive, Imperative, Propositive and Preventive markers themselves. The Volitive mood markers with which I am now concerned should be necessarily affixed to the action verbs: the subjects of the Volitive mood sentence are always in the first and the second person. However, Non-volitive mood markers do not show any restrictions in combining with verbs, their subjects can be in any person.
4. The above-mentioned sentence-types and mood-system are a little different from the ones in indirect speech. In this case we find four sentence-types: Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative and Propositive. The Exclamative, Promissive and Preventive which were identified in direct speech do not appear in direct speech. The same phenomenon can also be proved in the mood system. Among Indicative, Retrospective, Presumptive, Apodictive and Assertive which I identified in direct speech only three classes: Indicative, Retrospective and Presumptive appear in this speech.
5. The sentence-final endings which I have called so far sentence-types show many changes even in Modern Korean. The Declarative endings of descriptive verbs and copula in familiar speech level are being gradually unified with the ones of action verbs. In colloquial speech nearly all sentence-final endings are being simplified to yo-dropped endings and yo-added endings, although they are not simplified in indirect speech.