Routledge Comprehensive Grammars / Korean

1. Nouns




2.1.1 Lack of Articles, Number and Gender

2.1.1.1 Lack of Articles

2.1.1.2 Lack of Number

2.1.1.3 Lack of Gender

2.1.2 Bound/Dependent Nouns

2.1.2.1 'thing, 'object' or 'affair'

2.1.2.2 '-cum-'

2.1.2.3 'place'

2.1.2.4 'occasion, chance'

2.1.2.5 'in accordance with'

2.1.2.6 'thanks to'

2.1.2.7 'place'

2.1.2.8 'during'

2.1.2.9 'may or may not'

2.1.2.10 'as if'

2.1.2.11 'only, alone'

2.1.2.12 'when'

2.1.2.13 'reason'

2.1.2.14 'reasons'

2.1.2.15 'around the time'

2.1.2.16 'thing'

2.1.2.17 'only', 'just', 'nothing but'

2.1.2.18 'case', 'circumstance'

2.1.2.19 'event'

2.1.2.20 'the way', 'the fact'

2.1.2.21 / 'middle'

2.1.2.22 'since'

2.1.2.23 'side'

2.1.2.24 'just as it is'


2. Nominal Forms




2.2.1 Nominal Form -

2.2.2 Nominal Form - /-

2.2.3 Nominal Form -

2.2.4 Sentence Patterns with -

2.2.4.1 - 'depending ...')

2.2.4.2 - 'because ...')

2.2.4.3 - / - 'be bound to ...')

2.2.4.4 - ( ) - 'fortunately ... otherwise'

2.2.4.5 - - 'start ...'

2.2.4.6 - - 'it is easy to ...'

2.2.4.7 - - 'in order to'

2.2.4.8. - -/ - 'boundless, endless'

2.2.4.9 - - 'be apt to ...'

2.2.4.10 - 'before ...'

2.2.4.11 - - 'very ...'

2.2.4.12 - - 'just ...'

2.2.4.13 - 'no way'

2.2.4.14 - - 'indeed'

2.2.4.15 - ( ) 'far from ...'

2.2.4.16 - - 'also ...'

2.2.4.17 - - 'only ...'

2.2.4.18 - - 'decide to ...'

2.2.4.19 - - 'be supposed to ...'

2.2.4.20 - / - 'hope ...'

2.2.4.21 - 'upon, because ...'

2.2.4.22 - - 'depending on ...'

2.2.5 Nominal Form -

2.2.6 Using -( ) / to Create Nominal Forms


3. Pronouns




2.3.1 Personal Pronouns

2.3.1.1 First Person Pronouns

2.3.1.2 Second Person Pronouns

2.3.1.3 Third Person Pronouns

2.3.2 Demonstrative Pronouns

2.3.3 Reflexives and Reciprocals

2.3.4 Interrogative Pronouns (Wh-words)


4. Numbers and Counting

2.4.1 Pure Korean and Sino-Korean Numbers

2.4.2 Which System to Use

2.4.3 Sentence Patterns with Numbers

2.4.4 Counting and Naming Periods of Time

2.4.4.1 Years

2.4.4.2 Months

2.4.4.3 Weeks

2.4.4.4 Days

2.4.4.5 Telling the Time

2.4.4.6 Telling the Date

1. Particles

3.1 Defining Particles

3.2 Case Particles

3.2.1 The Subject Particle /

3.2.2 The Object Particle /

3.2.3 The Possessive Particle

3.2.4 Particles of Movement and Location

3.2.4.1 'to/in/at'

3.2.4.2 ( ) 'in/to'

3.2.4.3 'from/in/at'

3.2.4.4 / 'to'

3.2.4.5 'to'

3.2.4.6 'to'

3.2.4.7 / 'from'

3.2.4.8 ( ) 'from'

3.2.4.9 Particle phrase ( ) 'letting/making (someone do something)'

3.2.5 Instrumental Particles

3.2.5.1 ( ) 'by/with/as'

3.2.5.2 ( ) 'as'

3.2.5.3 ( ) 'by means of'

3.2.5.4 Particle phrase ( ) ( ) 'due to'

3.2.6 Comitative Particles

3.2.6.1 / 'and/with'

3.2.6.2 'and/with'

3.2.6.3 ( ) 'and/with'

3.2.7 Vocative Particle /

3.3 Special Particles

3.3.1 The Plural Particle

3.3.2 Particles of Topic and Focus

3.3.2.1 The topic particle /

3.3.2.2 ( ) 'if it's ...'

3.3.2.3 ( ) 'indeed'

3.3.3 Particles of Extent

3.3.3.1 'only'

3.3.3.2 'only'

3.3.3.3 'except for'

3.3.3.4 'from'

3.3.3.5 'up until'

3.3.3.6 'also', 'even'

3.3.3.7 'even'

3.3.3.8 'even'

3.3.3.9 / 'with exception', 'pretty ... for a ...'

3.3.3.10 'far from'

3.3.4 Particles of Frequency

3.3.4.1 'every'

3.3.4.2 'apiece'

3.3.5 Particles of Approximation and Optionality

3.3.5.1 'about'

3.3.5.2 ( ) 'about', 'or', 'just'

3.3.6 Particles of Comparison and Contrast

3.3.6.1 'like'

3.3.6.2 'like'

3.3.6.3 'as ... as'

3.3.6.4 'more than'

3.3.6.5 'unusually'

3.3.6.6 'in accordance with'







4. Verbs

4.1 Characteristics of Korean Verbs

4.1.1 Types of Verbs: Processive and Descriptive

4.1.2 Types of Verbs: - Verbs

4.1.3 Types of Verbs: Negative Verbs

4.1.4 Types of Verbs: The Copula (Equational Verb)

4.1.5 Verb Bases

4.1.6 The Infinitive Form

4.1.7 The Dictionary Form

4.1.8 Attaching Verb Endings

4.2 Negatives

4.2.1 Short Negatives with and

4.2.2 Long Negatives with - - and - -

4.2.3 Negative Commands and Proposals with - -

4.2.4 Expressions that Require Negative Verbs

4.3 Tense and Aspect

4.3.1 Past Tenses

4.3.1.1 Simple Past - / -

4.3.1.2 Past-Past or Discontinuous Past - / -

4.3.1.3 Observed or Perceived Past Tense - -

4.3.2 Future Tenses

4.3.2.1 - -

4.3.2.2 -( ) -

4.3.2.3 Other Forms with Future-related Meanings

4.3.2.4 Summary of Korean Futures

4.3.3 Continuous Tense

4.3.3.1 Continuous States with - / -

4.3.3.2 Continuous Actions with - -

4.4 Derived Verbs: Passives, Causatives and Others

4.4.1 Passives

4.4.1.1 Derived Passive Verbs

4.4.1.2 Passives with -

4.4.1.3 Passives with Other Support Verbs

4.4.1.4 Passives with - / -

4.4.2 Causatives

4.4.2.1 Derived Causative Verbs

4.4.2.2 Causatives with - -

4.4.2.3 Causatives with - -

4.4.2.4 Causatives with -

4.4.3 Transforming Descriptive Verbs into Processive Verbs

4.4.3.1 Forming Processive Verbs with - -

4.4.3.2 Forming Processive Verbs with - -



5. Auxiliary (Support) Verbs

5.1 Auxiliary Verbs with -( / )

5.1.1 -( / ) - (ongoing activity "away")

5.1.2 -( / ) - (ongoing activity "towards")

5.1.3 -( / ) - (finish, achieve)

5.1.4 -( / ) - (do all the way)

5.1.5 -( / ) -(do for future reference)

5.1.6 -( / ) - (do repeatedly)

5.1.7 -( / ) - (do completely for regret or relief)

5.1.8 -( / ) - (try doing)

5.1.9 -( / ) - (seem)

5.1.10 -( / ) - (lapse into a negative state)

5.1.11 -( / ) - (do repeatedly)

5.1.12 -( / ) - (perform a favour)

5.1.13 -( / ) - (do rashly)

5.2 Auxiliary Verbs with -( / )

5.2.1 - - (stop after)

5.2.2 - - (after trying doing)

5.2.3 - - (run an errand)

5.3 Auxiliary Verbs with -

5.3.1 - - (after finishing)

5.3.2 - - (end up)

5.3.3 - - (do and then realize)

5.3.4 - - (want to do)

5.4 Auxiliary Verbs with -( )

5.4.1 -( ) - (think it might)

5.4.2 -( ) - (afraid it might)

5.4.3 -( ) - (think of doing)

5.5 Auxiliary Verbs with - /

5.5.1 - / - (look like)

5.5.2 - / - (think it might)

5.6 Auxiliaries with -

5.6.1 - - (turn out so that)

5.6.2 - - (seem)

5.7 Auxiliary Verb with -( / )

5.7.1 -( / ) -/ - (must, have to)



6. Honorifics

6.1 Speech Styles (Hearer Honorifics)

6.1.1 The Polite Style

6.1.2 The Formal Style

6.1.3. The Intimate Style - Panmal Style

6.1.4. The Plain Style

6.1.5 Familiar Style

6.1.6 Semi-formal Style

6.2 Referent Honorifics

6.2.1 Subject Honorifics

6.2.1.1 The Subject Honorific Marker -( ) -

6.2.1.2 Verbs with Special Subject Honorific Forms

6.2.1.3 Subject honorific particle

6.2.2 Object Honorifics

6.2.2.1 Verbs with Special Object Honorific Forms

6.2.2.2 Object Honorific Particle

6.2.3 Honorific Nouns

6.2.4 Putting the Honorifics System together

6.3 Terms of Address

6.3.1 Names

6.3.2 Titles

6.3.3 Kinship Terms

6.3.4 How to Address Someone





7. Clausal Connectives

7.1 Causal Connectives

7.1.1 -( / )

7.1.2 - /

7.1.3 - /

7.1.4 - / ( ) -

7.1.5 -( / )

7.1.6 -( )

7.1.7 -( )

7.1.8 -( )

7.1.9 -( )

7.1.10-

7.1.11 -

7.1.12 -( )

7.1.13 - and ( / )

7.1.14 -( )

7.2 Contrastive Connectives

7.2.1 -

7.2.2 -( )

7.2.3 -( )

7.2.4 -( )

7.2.5 -( / )

7.2.5.1 -( / ) in permissive constructions

7.2.5.2 Don't have to... with -

7.2.5.3 Idiomatic -( / ) expressions

7.2.6 -

7.2.7 -

7.2.8 -( / )

7.2.9 -( )

7.2.10 -( )

7.2.11 -( )

7.2.12 -( )

7.2.13 -

7.2.14 -

7.2.15 -( / )

7.3 Additional and Sequential Connectives

7.3.1 -

7.3.2 -

7.3.3 -

7.3.4 - -

7.3.5 - /

7.3.6 -

7.3.7 -( )

7.3.8 -( )

7.3.9 -( )

7.3.10 - ( )

7.3.11 - ( )

7.3.12 -( ) /

7.3.13 -( )

7.4 Optional Connectives

7.4.1 -

7.4.2 -

7.4.3 -

7.4.4 -( ) in Oblique Questions

7.4.5 -( ) in Oblique Questions

7.4.6. -( / ) in Obliques Questions

7.4.7 -( ) ( -)

7.5 Conditional Connectives

7.5.1 -( )

7.5.1.1 -( / ) -

7.5.1.2 -( ) -

7.5.1.3 -( / ) -

7.5.1.4 -( ) -

7.5.1.5 -( ) -

7.5.1.6 - - / ... -

7.5.2 - /-

7.5.3 -( )

7.5.4 - ( )

7.5.5 -( / )

7.5.6 -

7.5.7 -( / )

7.5.7.1 -( / ) / -

7.5.8 -( / )

7.5.9 -( ) ... -( )

7.6 Causative Connectives

7.6.1 -

7.6.2 -

7.6.3 -

7.7 Intentive Connectives

7.7.1 -( )

7.7.2 -( )

7.7.3 -

7.8 Comparison Connectives

7.8.1 -

7.8.2 -



8. Modifiers

8.1 Modifying Forms

8.1.1 The Future/Prospective Modifier -( )

8.1.2 The Present Dynamic Modifier -

8.1.3 The State/Result Modifier -( )

8.1.4 The Continuous Past Modifier -

8.1.5 The Discontinuous Past Modifier -( / )

8.1.6 The Prospective Past modifier -( / )

8.2 Sentence Patterns with Modifier Clauses

8.2.1 - 'in the middle of '

8.2.2 modifier + 'the fact that ...'

8.2.3 modifier + - 'it seems that ...'

8.2.4 -( ) 'with the combined purpose of ...'

8.2.5 -( ) 'plan to...'

8.2.6 -( ) | 'as long as you're at it'

8.2.7 - | ( ) 'on the way to ...'

8.2.8 -( ) 'as a result ... '

8.2.9 -( ) , , 'after ...'

8.2.10 - |-( ) 'in accordance with'

8.2.11 - 'in the matter of'

8.2.12 - / 'while ...'

8.2.13 -( ) |- |-( ) 'may or may not'

8.2.14 -( ) |- |-( ) 'just like'

8.2.15 -( ) |- |-( ) -/ - 'seem like'

8.2.16 -( ) - 'only'

8.2.17 -( ) 'when ...'

8.2.18 -( ) - 'no way that ...'

8.2.19 - /-( ) 'in the situation where'

8.2.20 -( ) - 'worth...'

8.2.21 -( ) |- |- ( ) - 'seem like'

8.2.22 -( ) ( / ) 'rather ... than'

8.2.23 -( ) | 'because of ...'

8.2.24 -( ) | ( ) ('on the other hand')

8.2.25 -( ) - 'nearly ...'

8.2.26 -( ) 'only'

8.2.27 -( ) -/ - 'can /cannot ...'

8.2.28 -( ) | ( ( )) 'since'; 'unless'

8.2.29 -( ) |- / -/ - 'ever/never

8.2.30 -( ) 'to the extent that ...'

8.2.31 -( ) |- |-( ) - / - 'think/know ...'

8.2.32 - / 'in the middle of ...'

8.2.33- - 'be in the middle of ...'

8.2.34 -( ) ( ) 'when'

8.2.35 -( ) '... since'

8.2.36 -( ) - 'just about to'

8.2.37 -( ) ( ) 'as it is'

8.2.38 - - 'pretend'

8.2.39 - |-( ) 'due to'

8.2.40 -( ) |- 'in the commotion'

8.2.41 -( ) | - 'as much as'





9. Sentence Endings

9.1 - 'of course ...'

9.2 - 'it's because', 'you see'

9.3 - ?/-( ) ? dubitative questions

9.4 -( ) , -( ) , -( ) , -( ) / exclamations

9.5 - evidential exclamations

9.6 - 'of course'

9.7 - / disapproval

9.8 -( ) presumptions, regrets

9.9 -( ) promise-like futures

9.10 -( ) ? suggestions, tentative questions

9.11 -( ) 'feel like (doing)'

9.12 -( ) 'I'm afraid'

9.13 -( ) 'could ... really?'

9.14 -( ) /-( ) 'should, must'

9.15 -( ) / -( ) granting permission; orders

9.16 -( ) promise-like futures

9.17 - 'you know'

9.18 - tag questions



10. Quotations

10.1 Direct Quotations

10.2 Indirect Quotations

10.2.1 Quoted Statements

10.2.2 Quoted Questions

10.2.3 Quoted Proposals

10.2.4 Quoted Commands

10.2.5 The Verb - in Quoted Commands

10.2.6 Quoting Verbs

10.3 Reduced Indirect Quotations in Reported Speech

10.3.1 - , - , - , -

10.3.2 - , - , - , -

10.4 Special Patterns with Indirect Quotations

10.4.1 - / / / ( )

10.4.2 - /

10.4.3 - /

10.4.4 - /

10.4.5 -( )

10.4.6 - / / / -



11. Other Word Classes

11.1 Adnouns

11.2 Adverbs

11.2.1 Grammatical Classification of Adverbs

11.2.1.1 Proper Adverbs

11.2.1.2 Derived Adverbs

11.2.1.3 Sentence Adverbs

11.2.1.4 Conjunctive Adverbs

11.2.2 Semantic Classification of Adverbs

11.2.2.1 Time Adverbs

11.2.2.2 Degree Adverbs

11.2.2.3 Manner Adverbs

11.2.2.4 Onomatopoeic/Mimetic Adverbs

11.3 Prefixes and Suffixes

11.3.1 Prefixes

11.3.2 Suffixes

11.3.2.1 Noun-deriving Suffixes

11.3.2.2 Adverb-deriving Suffixes

11.3.2.3 Verb-deriving Suffixes

11.3.2.4 Adnominal Suffix -





Glossary of Linguistic Terms



Related Readings and Bibliography



Index of Grammatical Constructions (Korean)



Index of Translation Equivalents (English)



General Index