초록 열기/닫기 버튼

The purpose of this paper is to confirm a transition of noun clause, focused on noun clause, from the 15th century to the modern korean. For this purpose, confirmed a frequency of component through the centuries, then confirmed a morphologic and syntactic characteristics. The results are summarized as follows. First, a ‘ㅁ noun clause’ had functioned stably in the 15th century. But, since the 16th century, A gradual extinction of ‘-o-’ has caused the instability of ‘ㅁ noun clause’ and it led to both a activation of ‘기 noun clause’ and a frequent appearance of ‘ㄴ 것 noun clause’. Second, a ‘ㅁ noun clause’ had appeared a tense and honorific. A tense had appeared ‘present’ and ‘past’ from the 15th century to modern. A honorific had appeared ‘subject honorific’ and ‘object honorific’ in the 15-16th century. But, since the 17th century, had only appeared ‘subject honorific’. A ‘기 noun clause’ also had appeared a tense and honorific. A tense had appeared ‘present’ and ‘past’, ‘undecided’ and A honorific had appeared ‘subject honorific’ and ‘object honorific’third, since the 15th century to modern, a ‘ㅁ noun clause’ had functioned stably as subject, object, adverb and predicates without significant change. A ‘기 noun clause’ had also functioned stably as subject, object, adverb, predicates without significant change.