영어 대명사 굴절에 관한 연구

• 영문명: The Inflection of English Pronouns
• 발행기관: 한국영어교육연구학회
• 저자명: 楊萬燮(Man-seob Yang)
• 간행물 정보: 『영어교육연구』제34호, 169~190쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.05.30

영문 초록

This paper intends to describe and generalize the inflection of English pronouns. Only the pronouns retained, and still do retain, a considerable degree of the complexity that characterized them in Old English. These words alone preserved distinctive subject and object case forms, except for the neuter pronouns (h)it, that, this, and what, which even in Old English had not differentiated the nominative and accusative. Old English se, þæt, sēo, and plural þā, with their various oblique forms, were ultimately reduced to the, that, and plural thǭ; however, inflected forms derived from the Old English declensions continued to be used in some dialects, though not in East Midland, until the thirteenth century. The the, which at first replaced only the masculine nominative se, came to be used as an invariable definite article. That and thǭ were thus left for the demonstrative function. Another the, form the Old English masculine and neuter instrumental þē, has had continuous adverbial use in English. The Old English masculine-feminine interrogative pronoun hwā became in Middle English whō, and the neuter form hwæt became what. As with the other pronouns, the dative drove out the accusative of the first of these, the dative whmō being used in any objective function. Rather important changes are to be noted in the pronouns. Although they are the most highly inflected part of speech in present-day English, thus preserving the earlier synthetic character of our language in a small way, the system of the pronouns has undergone several major and a number of minor alterations.

목차

I. 서 론

II. 인칭대명사

III. 재귀대명사

IV. 지시대명사

V. 관계대명사

VI. 의문대명사

VII. 부정대명사

VIII. 결 론

참고문헌

키워드

inflection pronoun Old English Middle English Modern English