Re: Adjectives, Particles, and This ( etc ), and Conjunctions...

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Pavel A. da Mek wrote:

> >>= PARTICLES =====================================================
>
> Essentially, particles are prefixes that are not fixed.
The term "particle" is used in Korean for all the *suffix* grammatical
markers (Korean uses those plus postpositions).  Perhaps "affixes that
are not fixed"?  (What does fixed mean in this context, BTW?)  I can't
think of any particle that prefixes, though, and I'm not sure whether the
honorific forms are considered quasi-infixes at the end or should just be
whole-cloth suffixes.

Examples of so-called particles in Korean include:
-i/-ga (subject marker)
-eul/-reul (object marker)
-eun/-neun (topic marker, and no, it's not the same thing as the subject...)
-hago (conjunction between two clauses, "and")

plus a plethora of things that the Korean text I worked through with my
mom this winter doesn't, IMHO, adequately deal with.  (I really want a
descriptive grammar of the language.  "Learning Korean for foreigners"
books inevitably never cover enough of the grammatical constructions I
already know how to use in any sort of formal depth.)

YHL