A Grammar of ‘Kada’ in Daegu Dialect

Abstract

This study aims to investigate various usages and those semantic associations of ‘kada’ in Daegu Dialect. Though a number of previous researches already dealt with different functions of ‘kada’, such as quotation verb, utterance verb, and pro-verb, this study tries to analyze in detail individual grammatical characteristics and explore comprehensively their mutual relation. In addition, by discussing together ‘ikada, geukada, jeokada’, which had been developed in the opposite direction with ‘kada’, it is confirmed that these words have a close and systematic correspondence with each other in terms of grammar.