초록 열기/닫기 버튼
This paper discusses the usage of the expression -esenun in Korean. A careful examination of the uses of -esenun shows that it has two distinguishable expressions of -esenun. One is the separable -esenun, which is the combination of the connective ending -ese and the delimiter -nun. However, the meaning of the other -esenun is not explained by the sum of elements’ meanings. I focus on this latter expression. The inseparable -esenun has the conditional meaning as a whole. Moreover, -esenun exists as an internal component of the -esenun + [negative] construction rather than as an independent construction. This construction has a negative expression and usually expresses the speaker’s negative judgment or attitude towards events which have not happened yet.
키워드열기/닫기 버튼
delimiter -nun, combination of connective ending and delimiter, [negative] construction, frame-setting topic, conditional, domain restrictor
