A study on grammatical aspect and meaning education of ‘-go’ and ‘-(eu)myueonseo’.
This study examines connective endings that are not commonly treated as grammatical markers of aspect in Korean language education. Focusing on the similar grammatical items ‘-go’ and ‘-(eu)myeonseo’, the study analyzes their meanings from the perspective of grammatical aspect and clarifies their aspectual differences. Because ‘-(eu)myeonseo’ requires the same subject in both the preceding and following clauses, the analysis compares it with ‘-go’ in contexts where the same-subject condition is satisfied. When combined with verbs, ‘-go’ can express both resultative and completive meanings, but it conveys a meaning similar to ‘-(eu)myeonseo’ only when it expresses a resultative meaning. With ‘-go’, the first event is completed and its result becomes relevant to the second event, whereas ‘-(eu)myeonseo’ indicates that two events proceed simultaneously without reaching a resulting state. For pedagogical purposes, it is important to explain the distinction between the continuation of a state and the progression of an action, as well as the meanings of simultaneity and sequentiality, in order to clarify the difference between ‘-go’ and ‘-(eu)myeonseo’.