한국어 형용사 범주 인식의 변화 양상

On the change of recognition of adjectival category

This paper which examined the history of the study on adjective in Korean aims to explain the change of the recognition of adjectival category. In this study, 4 stages are assumed to show the shift of establishing a adjectival category in terms of diachronic approaches. In first stage, It is known that there is no adjective in Korean or Korean adjective is very different from that of western Language by the foreigner during the early 20th century. It is the second stage that such a bias based on western oriented views is overcame by the Korean traditional grammarian who knows that Korean adjective is similar to verb rather than noun and had tried to explain the differences between adjective and verb in the middle of 20th century. The new suggestions that Korean adjective is unaccusative or all Korean adjectives are verbs has proposed in third stage in the influences of the new linguistic theories. The last stage is when the linguistic typologic approaches on the word classes are introduced to Korean linguistic society. By the typological study on adjective, it is turned out that Korean adjective are not the exceptional one even though it can be a predicate like verbs.(verb like adjective)