명사형 어미 ‘-ㅁ’의 형성 과정 탐색

The focus of this article is to research the formation and change of nominalizing ending ‘-m’. Nominalizing ending ‘-m’ has been used broadly since 15th century Korean until present Korean. However, the situation is not equal in seoktokgugyeol documents of the Goryeo dynasty. It is difficult to discover traces of nominalizing ending ‘-m’ in hyangchal documents of the Silla dynasty. Just the ‘音(m)’ in ‘年數 就音(in Mojukjirangga)’ and ‘伊吾音之叱 恨隱(in Ujeokka)’ are related to nominalizing ending ‘-m’. However all of them are still not deciphered completely. In seoktokgugyeol documents, ‘-(m)’ of the phrase ‘- 應/可-’ is close to nominalizing ending. Nevertheless the distribution of this ending ‘-m’ was very narrow. In eumdokgugyeol documents, nominalizing ending ‘-om/um’ was used broadly. The situation is equal to that of 15th century Korean Hangeul documents. So we cannot find out the intermediate form of the transition period. Maybe, there was an abrupt change between seoktokgugyeol period and eumdokgugyeol period. In addition, it is also difficult to discover the traces of nominalizing ending ‘-m’ in Idu documents. It is unusual that a certain grammatical morpheme appears suddenly. The ‘-m’ which was originally derivational suffixes of nouns, enlarged the boundaries to the nominalizing ending. Several usages in hyangchal and seoktokgugyeol documents are close to the intermediate form.