A Comparative Study on Similarities Between the Definite Article 'the' and the Particle 'eun/neun' in A Novel

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to find the meaning similarities between the two items by comparing the meaning functions of the English definite article ‘ the ’ and the Korean particle ‘eun/neun’ through the analysis of the novel. We compared the meaning functions of the English definite article ‘the’ with the meaning functions of the Korean search ‘eun/neun’ in five situations: ‘anaphoric usage,’ ‘ situational usage,’ ‘ associative usage,’ ‘ logical usage,’ and ‘ usage with modifiers.’ As a result, the definite article ‘ the ’ and the Korean particle ‘ eun/neun ’ were found to have similar meaning functions in these five situations.