The aim of this study is to conduct an inductive analysis of the metalinguistic terms employed in explicating the meaning of verb endings in Korean grammar dictionaries. This analysis serves as a foundation for the future development of a systematic f...
The aim of this study is to conduct an inductive analysis of the metalinguistic terms employed in explicating the meaning of verb endings in Korean grammar dictionaries. This analysis serves as a foundation for the future development of a systematic framework for verb ending definitions. The research questions addressed in this paper can be summarized as follows. The first pertains to the classification of metalinguistic terms used in defining verb endings, while the second is concerned with providing a structured framework for verb ending definitions. To address these questions, this paper collected and inputted 13,884 lexical entries associated with 826 meaning categories of verb endings and their corresponding inflectional paradigms from three widely-used Korean grammar dictionaries. Subsequently, the constructed corpus data was tagged and analyzed across five domains: 'Discourse Participant,' 'Discourse Situation,' 'Discourse Content,' 'Dialogue Attitude,' and 'Discourse Function.' This research has provided insights into the strategies employed in explaining verb endings within Korean grammar dictionaries and, through statistical analysis, observation, and examination of the metalinguistic terms used in meaning descriptions, has laid the groundwork for the systematic development of verb ending definitions in the future.