A Comparative Study on Similarities Between the Definite Article ‘the’ and the Particle ‘eun/neun’ in A Novel
AUTHORS
In-Young Lee,Cheonanbakseok Elementary School, Korea
Mun-Koo Kang*,Corresponding Author, Kongju National University, Korea
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this paper is to find the meaning similarities between the two items by comparing the meaning functions of the English definite article ‘the’ and the Korean particle ‘eun/neun’ through the analysis of the novel. We compared the meaning functions of the English definite article ‘the’ with the meaning functions of the Korean search ‘eun/neun’ in five situations: ‘anaphoric usage,’ ‘situational usage,’ ‘associative usage,’ ‘logical usage,’ and ‘usage with modifiers.’ As a result, the definite article ‘the’ and the Korean particle ‘eun/neun’ were found to have similar meaning functions in these five situations.
KEYWORDS
Definite article, Korean particle, Article usages, Meaning similarity of ‘the’ and ‘eun/neun’
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