『국어국문학』 60년 - 국어학

Abstract

This thesis aims at describing the trend of Korean linguistics in the past 60 years. The Society of Korean Language and Literature was founded in 1952. And it published The Korean Language and Literature V. 1 in 1952. 160 volumes of The Korean Language and Literature have been published since then. This thesis was designed in celebration of 60th anniversary of the society. 722 papers on Korean language were reviewed from the statistical point of view. As a result, historical study was found to have been the most popular topic in the Korean linguistics. In earlier stage, many scholars focused on the phonemic value of characters of Hunminjeongeum which were invented by king Sejong in 1443. As time went on, other scholars became interested in other branches of Korean linguistics. Especially,Korean language and information has been introduced to Korean linguistics in recent days. Korean linguistics has been influenced by general linguistics. In earlier stage, traditional linguistics had influence on the Korean linguistics, especially the grammar. Later the structural linguistics had influence on phonology and morphology. In 1960s, the transformational grammar had strong influence on phonology, morphology, and syntax. In recent days, its influence on Korean linguistics has waned. Nowadays, Many scholars focus on the details of Korean language phenomena.