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A Study on the lexical variation of Korean Idioms

Kwon Kyung-il 1

1연세대학교

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to clarify the lexical variation of Korean Idioms to explore the characteristics of patterns and investigate their features. Idioms can be defined as multiple word units that contain fixdeness and idiomaticity, such as idioms, idiomatic collocation, figurative expressions, proverbs, slogan or proper nouns. Idioms are usually known as fixed unit but they have variations to present with various expressive effects. The variation of idioms can be classified into lexical variation , systematic variation. The lexical variations has verb variations, noun variations ,adjective, truncation etc. The reason of variation is expressive effectiveness of idioms. The variation of idioms has difference with modification of idioms whether they have the status of lexical items. The variation of idioms reflect relation of literal meaning of idioms. These feature of idoms must be presented in dictionary for learner to study usage of idioms. It is necessary to explore and analyze various characteristics of idioms that express and deliver ideas.

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