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This paper aims to investigate the characteristics of the secondperson pronoun ‘그대[keudae]’. Even though this pronoun is thecorrespondence of ‘너[neo]’(you) which is the most general secondpronoun in the aspect of the addressee-honorifics, some people take itfor third person pronoun in some instances recently. This case isoriginated from several causes. Most of all, when a addressee is invisible at the scene of discourse,some misread who is referred ‘그대’ as the third person she or he. Alsosince some changes occurred in the addressee-honorific systemdiachronically, the distribution scope of ‘그대’ became to cover all kindsof honorific styles. However we can identify the characteristics as the second personpronoun of ‘그대’ to be still steady. At first, ‘그대’ occurred in theimperative and the propositive without any constraints. There are nopossibility that people would interpret it as the third person. At second, as ‘그대’ often combines with the vocative case marker‘여[yeo]’, it would be introduced into the discourse as a addresseeautomatically. Besides, ‘여’ has some restriction in combining with otherperson pronoun. Therefore we reaffirmed that ‘그대’ has solid status asa second person pronoun.
