The Historic Study Of Morphology In Korean

Since 1945, Korean Peninsula has been divided into South Korea and North Korea. During the past 60 years, because of different political systems in these two countries, language policy, language education and language study started to appear difference. This paper combined longitudinal study and synchronic study, and discussed studies of syntax form ending "?" during the past100 years. In longitudinal study, it researched the origin of ending systems in South and North Korea in 3 stages. In synchronic study, it analyzed studies in every stage in detail, and on this basis, contrasts them to find the differences and similarities in two countries. Because of the comprehensive analysis of grammar books of Korean which have been published, and the summary of achievement in Korean grammar during 100 years, this paper is of high theoretical value and application value.The study of North Korea in the South started since1 970s, and began to deep into research since 1980s. The study of grammar is as the same. There are some achievements in contrast study of the language in the South and the North, most of which dealing with just a bit of grammar books. The research in this paper which dealing with 59 grammar books, studied in detail the defining and classification of syntax forms.Through the study of syntax form "-to" in chapter 2, we can find that there're a lot of differences in the defining of syntax forms between the South and the North. In the South Korean grammar, syntax forms after a substantive are called "particle", which can be called individual words; but syntax forms after a predicate are called "ending", which can not be called individual words. In the North Korea, they think that syntax forms after a substantive or a predicate are both "to", which can not be called individual words. In this point, this paper talked about the differences between individual words and syntax forms in 6 aspects, and then discussed if "particle" and "ending" are the same syntax forms. And with, these 6 aspects, it also discussed some controversial grammatical issues in chapter 5,6 and 7, such as "?", "?" and ending "?, ?,?,?,?,?,?".In chapter 3, this paper discussed the classification of "?". First it compared the "?" after a substantive and a predicate, and found out the differences between them. Then it confirmed that the origin of the grammar system of the South Korea is chuoi hyunbae (1937), and the origin of the grammar system of the North Korea is jung liel mo (1946)In chapter 4, this paper discussed the classification of "case". Through the longitudinal study it found out that the system of case grammar in the South Korea, which is A class classification, originated from lee cang coon (1925). And the D class classification in the North originated from jung liel mo(1946). The classification in the South is mainly about grammatical function, while in the North is mainly about grammatical meaning. The differences come from the different concepts of language in these two countries.In chapter 8, this paper discussed pre-final endings, especially the ascription of "?,?, ?, ?,?, ?…". Most of grammar books in the South consider them as endings, taking them out from a part of final endings. But in the North, they are considered as a part of final endings. This paper discussed the category in grammar meaning, grammar function and syntax forms.In chapter 9, it discussed connective endings. The classification of connective endings is a controversial grammatical issue. After longitudinal study, this paper divided classification of connective endings to A, B, C, D 4 classes. Now the North Korea is using A class, while the South is using D class classification. The differences between A class and D class is the setting of auxiliary conjunctive ending. That is to say, according to D class classification, there's auxiliary conjunctive ending. But there's not such a ending in A class classification.In chapter 10 conclusion, it talked about some problems in this paper and some points to make up in the future.In conclusion, because the South Korea began to contact with western language theories from the second step, multiple language concepts appeared. But in the North Korea, as foreign language theories can not be contacted, the language concept resulted to be unitary. Different language concepts brought about different language studies. Relatively, grammar studies in the South are active and varied, while in the North too similar and unitary.