1st Edition

Missionary Grammars and the Language of Translation in Korea (1876–1910)

By Paweł Kida Copyright 2024
212 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Missionary Grammars and the Language of Translation in Korea (1876 − 1910) embraces the Enlightenment period in Korea (1876−1910) after the opening of the so-called Hermit Nation in describing the Korean language and missionary works. This book includes a comprehensive analysis and description of works published at that time by John Ross (1877, 1882), Felix-Clair Ridel (1881), James Scott... Read more

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Preface

Preliminaries

Abbreviations

1.    METAGRAMMATICAL THOUGHT

1.1.      Foreign evaluation of former Korean grammar

1.2.      Korean evaluation of former Korean grammar

1.3.      Missionary Grammars

2.         AUTHORS AND GRAMMARS’ CONTENT         

2.1.      John Ross (1842-1915)

2.2.      Felix-Clair Ridel (1830-1884)

2.3.      James Scott (1850-1920)

2.4.      Camille Imbault-Huart (1857-1897)

2.5.      Horace Grant Underwood (1859-1916)

2.6.      James Scrath Gale (1863-1937)

2.7.      Annie Laurie Baird (1864-1916)

3.         MORPHOSYNTACTIC MODEL

3.1.      Partes Orationis

3.1.1.   Noun

3.1.1.1.            Case

3.1.1.2.            Gender

3.1.1.3.            Number

3.1.2.   Pronoun

3.1.2.1.            Personal

3.1.2.2.            Demonstrative

3.1.2.3.            Reflexive

3.1.2.4.            Interrogative

3.1.2.5.            Indefinite

3.1.2.6.            Possessive

3.1.2.7.            Relative

3.1.2.8.            Distributive

3.1.3.   Numeral

3.1.3.1.            Cardinal

3.1.3.2.            Ordinal

3.1.3.3.            Fractional

3.1.3.4.            Multiplicative

3.1.3.5.            Classifiers

3.1.4.   Verb

3.1.4.1.            Voice

3.1.4.2.            Mood

3.1.4.3.            Tense

3.1.4.4.            Conjugation

3.1.4.5.            Basal Conjugation

3.1.4.6.            Participle

3.1.4.7.            Auxiliary Verb

3.1.4.8.            Verbal noun

3.1.4.9.            Gerundive/Supine

3.1.5.   Adjective

3.1.5.1.            Comparative degree

3.1.5.2.            Superlative degree

3.1.6.   Adverb

3.1.7.   Postposition

3.1.8.   Conjunction

3.1.9.   Interjection

3.2.      Sententiae Structura

3.2.1.   Negation

3.2.2.   Passive

3.2.3.   Causative

3.2.4.   Honorifics

3.2.5.   Indirect Speech

Conclusions

Bibliography

Grammatical Units and Korean Words

Index

Biography

Paweł Kida, PhD, Chief of Korean Language Department, Faculty of Ethnolinguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poland.