Korea Journal of Buddhist Studies ISSN:1598-0642(Print) 불교학연구

The reason why『JingDeChuanDengLu(景德傳燈錄)』has come into the spotlight, in particular for the study on the history of Chinese language, is the linguistic status of Zen Dialogues(禪宗 語錄) in the same age. Zen Dialogues are most prevalent in the Tang(唐代) and Beisong(北宋) Dynasty, reflecting those ages’ spoken language enough to be considered the most significant subject for the study of the history of the Chinese language.The paper studies the role and meaning of ‘將 (jiang)’ in the sentences from ‘JingDeChuanDengLu’, one of the representa\-tive Zen Dialogues, by searching for the usage of ‘jiang’ used as different parts of speech and its transformation as a part of speech depending on its several meanings.The word ‘jiang,’ as used in the old literature, has several meanings and usages according to its parts of speech such as noun, adverb, verb, preposition, postposition, etc., among which it is most frequently used as a preposition and an ad\-verb. In this paper, the author analyses “jiang” in its different lexical roles in order to analyze its meaning.As a verb, ‘jiang’ means ‘possess’ or ‘bring or take’ so that the verb tends to be placed before mostly directional lo\-comotion verbs. Focused on this fact, the author makes the formula of ‘jiang+(Object)+Verb’ a base and in turn classi\-fies it into two formulas of ‘jiang+(Object)+來/去 (lai/qu)’ and ‘jiang+(Object)+verbs other than 來/去 (lai/qu)’. In ad\-dition, the case that the postpositions of ‘得 (de)’ and ‘取 (qu) is placed after ‘jiang’ is sorted into the type, ‘jiang+postpositio n+(Object)+Verb’.As a preposition, ‘jiang’ indicates a tool, means or method of action, or plays a role in leading a target of action in the inverted sentence, one of the special syntaxes of the Chinese language.As a postposition, ‘jiang’ is used according to the formula of ‘Verb+jiang+(Object)+來/去 (lai/qu)’ in which ‘來 (lai)’ and ‘去 (qu)‘ are used as a complement providing a direction to a verb placed in front of it.As an adverb, ‘jiang’ is used as a demonstrative adverb to indicate when a certain thing happens, which is sorted out into both categories related to the future tense and the present progressive form.When used as a noun, ‘jiang’ has clear meanings different from the cases in which it is used as other parts of speech. These noun-meanings include ‘army general’ and ‘time to come’.The author writes this paper concentrating on the phe\-nomenon of the usage of words written as different parts of speech in the Chinese language, and desires to prepare a basic framework for the understanding of those multi-used words and introduce the method to analyze Chinese sentences depending on the words used as several parts of speech while interpreting Chinese literature. The author believes that if one comes to grasp the exact meaning, function and sen\-tence structure of ‘jiang’ based on its use as different parts of speech appearing in JingDeChuanDengLu, he or she can pre\-pare for ground to examine many-sided dimensions of the role of the word ‘jiang’ used in modern Chinese literature as well as JingDeChuanDengLu, which is further useful for the proper interpretation of Chinese sentences.