Table II. Evidence of suppressing...

Table II.

Evidence of suppressing function characters and grammatical particles in the prose writings of Yi Chŏnggwi and Yi Sik, who are suspected of having been influenced by the old phraseology movement. Sin Hŭm and Chang Yu are their contemporaries

	Yi Chŏnggwi	Sin Hŭm	Chang Yu	Yi sik	Sŏ Kŏjŏng	Yi saek
Total characters	403,907	181,316	69,310	200,637	99,334	122,417
Average	588	553	587	822	689	532
Median	321	288	555	467	589	423
Pieces	687	328	118	244	145	230
Ratio (%)	9.92	12.01	17.66	9.69	12.43	13.98
Function characters	40,067	21,774	12,243	19,441	12,352	17,115
也	2,412	2,178	1,244	1,309	828	2,156
矣	1,341	710	417	606	390	882
之	13,176	5,942	3,118	5,630	4,349	4,862
者	2,338	2,053	1,132	1,484	1,141	1,019
而	5,071	3,108	1,823	2,458	1,215	1,617
以	5,452	2,315	1,226	2,914	1,137	1,660
所	2,114	857	561	1,149	469	934
其	3,319	2,042	1,152	2,037	1,083	2,030
於	3,767	1,791	888	1,338	1,202	1,057
乎	705	524	401	279	393	519
焉	372	254	281	237	145	379

也 (%)	0.60	1.20	1.79	0.65	0.83	1.76
也 + 而 (%)	1.85	2.92	4.43	1.88	2.06	3.08

	Yi Chŏnggwi	Sin Hŭm	Chang Yu	Yi sik	Sŏ Kŏjŏng	Yi saek
Total characters	403,907	181,316	69,310	200,637	99,334	122,417
Average	588	553	587	822	689	532
Median	321	288	555	467	589	423
Pieces	687	328	118	244	145	230
Ratio (%)	9.92	12.01	17.66	9.69	12.43	13.98
Function characters	40,067	21,774	12,243	19,441	12,352	17,115
也	2,412	2,178	1,244	1,309	828	2,156
矣	1,341	710	417	606	390	882
之	13,176	5,942	3,118	5,630	4,349	4,862
者	2,338	2,053	1,132	1,484	1,141	1,019
而	5,071	3,108	1,823	2,458	1,215	1,617
以	5,452	2,315	1,226	2,914	1,137	1,660
所	2,114	857	561	1,149	469	934
其	3,319	2,042	1,152	2,037	1,083	2,030
於	3,767	1,791	888	1,338	1,202	1,057
乎	705	524	401	279	393	519
焉	372	254	281	237	145	379

也 (%)	0.60	1.20	1.79	0.65	0.83	1.76
也 + 而 (%)	1.85	2.92	4.43	1.88	2.06	3.08

Notes:

Sin Hŭm and Chang Yu are their contemporaries. Sŏ Kŏjŏng 徐居正 (1420-1488) and Yi Saek 李穡 (1328-1396) are famous neoclassical prose writers whose works have been analyzed here for comparison

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