'-고 잇다' 구성에서의 '진행' 의미 발전 양상

The Evolution in the '-go isda'(-고 잇다) Construction toward the 'Progressive'

The ‘-go isda’ construction in the middle and modern Korean meant the resultative continuance, stative continuance, and iterative continuance which covered a relative long time span, but the progressive which covers a relative short time span has not found in the literature. And the ‘-go isda’ construction had the constraint which only permitted the construction to be concatenated to a transitive verb. Thus contrary to the contemporary Korean the ‘-go isda’ construction could not be used with a intransitive verb. The ‘-go isda’ construction of the 17th century had not peculiarities contrasted with the construction of the middle Korean. In the late period of 18th century and the late period of modern Korean, some examples which meant progressive in ambiguous context can be identified. As a result there was a ambiguity which was interpreted as the possibility of change to the auxiliary verb construction meaning progressive. And this fact can be interpreted as being more grammaticalized than middle Korean. The ‘-go isda’ construction of the 19th century did not any peculiarity contrasting the previous age, but in that time the construction had the status of the auxiliary verb construction meaning resultative. But it is hard to find the obvious example of the progressive before the civilizing time. In the literature the progressive ‘-go isda’ construction appeared at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century and has widened its distribution till the contemporary Korean. The resultative ‘-go isda’ auxiliary construction has changed to the progressive ‘-go issda’ auxiliary construction through grammaticalization through middle and modern Korean ages. This was possible because the resultative ‘-go isda’ auxiliary construction from middle Korean to modern Korean had extended its power via grammaticalization. In this paper I tried catching the diachronic aspects of ‘-go isda’ construction in the viewpoint of grammaticalization.