부연의 연결어미 ‘-지’의 의미와 용법

Abstract

In this paper, we inspected meanings and uses of ‘-gi’, the connective ending of Korean. Most previous studies asserted that the meaning of ‘-gi’ is ‘contrast’. But we pointed out the problems of these studies, and demonstrated that the meaning of this ending is ‘expatiation’. The connective ending, ‘-gi’ represents that the following clause expatiates and emphasizes the proceeding clause with double negation. Because of double negation, the forms of the following clauses is fixed and restricted. At first, we divided the forms into two kinds, the basic and idiomatic forms. The basic forms are expressed to the meaning of double negation through various methods; double negation, rhetorical question, reinterpretation etc. The idiomatic forms is that the proceeding clauses have the idiomatical fixed forms.