한국어 서법 표지들의 근문/비근문 제약

• 영문명: Root/Non-Root Constraint on Mood Markers in Korean
• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: 홍용철(Yong-Tcheol Hong)
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제35권 제1호, 97~117쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2025.02.28

국문 초록

Korean mood markers are classified into two types: root mood markers, which are restricted to main clauses, and non-root mood markers, which can occur in both main and embedded clauses. This paper aims to account for the root/non-root constraint on these mood markers. We first review previous analyses, including the binding/control approach and the checking/agreement approach based on mood semantics, highlighting their limitations in capturing the root/non-root constraint. Building on this critique, we propose a novel checking/agreement analysis grounded in the addressee honorification system of Korean. Our proposal rests on two key claims. First, the Korean addressee honorification system is not a simple framework that considers only the addressee-related honorific feature, [+/-Addressee Respecting]. Rather, it is a fine-grained system that also incorporates the speaker-related honorific feature, [+/-Speaker Self-Lowering], structured through the combination of these two features. Second, root mood markers inherently include a speaker-related honorific feature, [-Speaker Self-Lowering], realized as a zero morpheme along with mood features, forming an inseparable unit. In contrast, non-root mood markers lack this feature. Under this proposal, root mood markers cannot appear in embedded clauses because their uninterpretable [-Speaker Self-Lowering] feature cannot establish Agreement with the head sa of the speech act projection (saP), located at the top of the sentence structure. Non-root mood markers, however, which lack the uninterpretable [-Speaker Self-Lowering] feature and contain only mood features, are not subject to this restriction and can therefore appear in both main and embedded clauses. By incorporating these insights, our checking/agreement analysis, rooted in the honorification system, successfully accounts for the root/non-root constraint in Korean mood markers and sheds new light on the intricate interplay between mood, syntax, and honorification in Korean grammar.

목차

1. 서론

2. 기존 연구

3. 상대높임법 자질에 근거한 점검/일치 분석

4. 결론

참고문헌

키워드

Korean mood markers root/non-root constraint addressee honorification speaker-related honorific feature checking/agreement speech act projection (saP)