‘만’, ‘만큼’, ‘만치’의 문법 양상에 대한 통시적 고찰

Abstract

This study aims to explain the grammatical functions of ‘man’, ‘mankeum’, ‘manchi’ diachronically focusing on mutual relations. First of all, ‘man’ appeared in various comparative constructions relating with gradability in Middle Korean. And ‘man’ was used to function as adverbial phrase in ‘-l man’ or emphasize the positive characteristic of the target of comparison co-occurring with negative predicates. ‘Man’ did not appear in both ‘gradability predicate’ and ‘-l man VP’ constructions in 19<SUP>th</SUP> century. Second, ‘magom’, ‘masgam’ have been mainly used to compare size or express gradability until 18<SUP>th</SUP> and were substituted for ‘Mankeum’ in 19<SUP>th</SUP>. ‘Mankeum’ appeared in ‘gradability predicate’ and ‘-l mankeum VP’ constructions as well as in ‘(mos) hada’ constructions in 19<SUP>th</SUP>. Lastly, ‘manchi’ extended its distribution to appear following ‘-l’ as ‘mankeum’ in late Modern Korean. This assertion is related to the fact that conjunctive ending ‘-limanchi’ began to be used in Sinsoseol published in the early 20<SUP>th</SUP> century.