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Lee, Hyun-Jung. 2014. A Study on ‘-게(ge)’ Functioning as a Final Ending. Journal of Linguistic Studies 19(3), 105-126. Cases in which a sentence is concluded by a grammatical items other than a final ending are often found in spoken Korean language. Especially, connective endings concluded a sentence by means of inversion and ellipsis or after undergoing a process of grammaticalization in colloquial language quite frequently. However, rarely any Korean language textbooks provide connective endings other than ‘-거든(geodeun)’, ‘-는데(neunde)’ and '-고(go)' that shows the ability to function as a final ending. Expecially, even though ‘-게(ge)’ displays complexity in terms of meanings and syntactic constraints and it is becoming more frequently utilized at the end of a sentence in the modern colloquial Korean, no Korean textbooks selected and included this as a grammatical item. This is neglected in the preceding researches also, which is the reason why studies that meticuously look into the use of it are very rare. Thus, this research is focused on inspecting closely into characteristics of ‘-게(ge)’ that concludes a sentence with a considerably high frequency. In addition, it also seeks to make suggestions on ‘-게(ge)’ from the perspective of Korean language education. (Yonsei University)