[KS] Variable Romanization of 년(年) in McCune-Reischauer

Frank Hoffmann hoffmann at koreanstudies.com
Tue Feb 25 17:10:06 EST 2014


Werner Sasse wrote:

> Another question in this respect is: How much is the regular 이/가 
> opposition of today the result of school grammar (again: the 
> linguists). The few prose texts from the 19th century I saw do 
> present chaos (is 가 possibly emphatic?) Ooooch...

Another relief -- this observation (meaning, it also confused me, but 
in my mind I was tagging it "Frank's shortcomings" in understanding 
grammar). You do not even have to go back to the 19th century for this, 
you still see it in texts of the early colonial period.

Frank




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