조사 ‘이/가’와 ‘을/를’의 통사와 의미

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to show the syntactic and semantic properties of the Korean particles “Ga/I” and “Reul/Eul”. At first I divided these particles into two groups, the first of which attach directly to the NP(noun phrase) and the second of which attach to the non-NP. Then I investigated the environments and the conditions in which they are used. The subjective particle “Ga/I” has strong disposition to act as a case-marker, but the particle “Ga/I” and “Reul/Eul”, that are in the scope of the VP(verb phrase), are related to the feature [±control] of the verb. The particle “Reul/Eul” when inserted into the verb is not related to any syntactic features. The particles which attach to non-NPs are emphasized more than those which attach directly to NPs. And the strength of that emphasis depends on the markedness or the unnaturalness of the sentence.