Abstract
In this study, we tried to analyze the grammaticalization of the verbs which have [SAY] meaning in Korean and Chinese in terms of contrastive perspectives. As a result, we noted a few things common to both languages as follows. First, there are certain speech verbs grammaticalized to quotative and complementizer in each language. Second, there are the path by which these speech verbs or the quotative forms are grammaticalized to the subordinates marking topic, enumeration, condition and supposition, or grammaticalized to the reported evidentiality marker. Third, parts of the quotative construction are grammarticalized as a discourse marker to perform pragmatic functions. We conclude that these similarities originates from the sameness of the original meaning of [SAY], and we think they are the results that the subjectivity of speech verb and quotative construction is expressed and extended along to the process of grammaticalization.
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