‘아무’의 지시적 성격과 출현 형태 및 의미적 해석

The referentiality of ‘amwu’ and the morphology and semantics

This paper aims to elucidate the morphological, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics of the Korean indefinite pronouns ‘amwudo’ and ‘amwuna.’ ‘Amwu’ can be used as the form ‘amwudo’, ‘amwuna’ which are auxiliary case marker ‘-do’, ‘-na’ combined forms. Thinking ‘amwu’ is a nominal, the case marker combining restraints to ‘Amoo’ is ununderstandable. And the fact that ‘amwu’ can be combined only with auxiliary case marker ‘-do’(also),‘-na’(or)must be explained. In this paper, in relation to the referent which it refers, I argued that the expression ‘amwu’ has the sense that it’s referring object is not fixed, so it cannot be a existence or identity which is a precondition in action, statehood. Therefore it cannot be combined with case markers. The reason why ‘amwu’ can combine with auxiliary case marker ‘-do’(also), ‘-na’(or) is that these can make a fixed entities by the meanings of them. I discussed the characteristics of ‘amwudo’ and ‘amwuna’. The former can be used only in negative context, and the latter can be used only in the affirmative context. ‘Amwudo can be interpreated universally in negative contexts, but principally ‘amwuna’ can be interpreted existentially.