This paper is planned in order to examine the various phases of the function of '-shi- and '-sap-' debated with the intricate theories and the views in the academic world, and therefore caused even the acute arguments more than the debate on the polit...
This paper is planned in order to examine the various phases of the function of '-shi- and '-sap-' debated with the intricate theories and the views in the academic world, and therefore caused even the acute arguments more than the debate on the politeness in modem Korean and revealed in the all sorts of the treatisis and the books collected "An outline of the successive generations Korean grammar".
Here, we will not debate any kind of calling what's right, right and what's wrong, wrong on the related theories and views. Because the basic purpose of this paper was posited to make a search for what to be right way for the discussion and comprehension on the problems related ’-shi- and '-sap-: Through the serious investigation, we called confirm that the theories and the views on ’-shi-' and '-sap-’ in the academic world today were concealed many and few in those of the former learned men; '-shi- is the element related to the subject-person and the object-person referred, and ’-sap-' is the element to be debated on the relation between the speaker and the hearer.
But we also could discover the queer views getting out of the self-evident and firm ideas as this; the form combined '一shi — with '-sap—, has the function which reverse the subject-person and the hearer some more. While we could get the points which many ststements of a certain learned man would not maintain the logical consistency, which the ongm of many theories on the function of '-shi- and '-sap-'would be begun with a certain view of a former learned man and therefore it would be possible to infer the one another’s influence-relations related to the theories brought up.