2020, Vol., No.113

Korean Language & Literature 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.63

pISSN : 1229-1730 / eISSN : 2733-8738
https://journal.kci.go.kr/koreall

ㅚ>ㅢ, ㅟ>ㅢ found around the 17th century have been explained as unrounding conditioning either [labial] or [round] so far, and it is clear that they involve the phonologic motive of ‘dissimilation’. However, ㅚ>ㅢ, ㅟ>ㅢ where we cannot find any phonologic conditions as in ‘반되>반듸>반디’(螢), ‘바퇴->버틔->버티-’ (柱), or ‘여위->여의-’(瘦, 渴) may not be referred to as unrounding just because they ended up becoming non-rounded vowels consequently. This study has revealed the characteristics of ㅚ>ㅢ, ㅟ>ㅢ of which phonologic motive does not seem clear. ㅚ>ㅢ, ㅟ>ㅢ of which phonetic conditions are not clear are explained with assimilation resulted from j generated within the syllabic structure internally. They are, at the same time, phonologic shifts generated sporadically in the process that the Korean vowel system embracing some blankness in the front complements such imbalance. In the process of monophthongization of /əj/, /aj/, /ə/, /a/ turn into variations [ej], [ɛj] through assimilation with /j/’s frontalization, but /o/, /u/ can be frontalized not only as [øj], [yj] but as /ɨ/, too, which is located right before according to the vowel system. In that period, ㆍ’s dephonologization generated variations in ‘:오’, ‘으:우’ roundedness contrasts, which allowed [oj]~[ɨj], [uj]~[ɨj] to be realized.

The purpose of this study is to reveal the combination constraint and semantic function of the adjective derivational suffixes, ‘-dab-’, ‘-lob-’, ‘-seuleob-’ based on Twitter language. To this end, it collected the derivatives of ‘-dab-’, ‘-lob-’, ‘-seuleob-’ and analyzed the aspects of use in Tweets written from 1 to 31 Oct. 2018. These suffixes have taken similar meanings but have been divided into different phonological, syntactic and semantic combination constraints. On Twitter, however, the suffix perceived as losing productivity in the past was also being actively used since the constraints were greatly weakened. The weakening of the combination constraint occurred in the syntactic and semantic levels, and, in particular, as the weakening of the semantic constraint was common all of ‘-dab-’, ‘-lob-’, ‘-seuleob-’, it showed that their boundaries of meaning were being broken down. Only it showed the differences in the way that ‘-dab-’ strongly reveals the equality between preceding base and subject, ‘-lob-’ functions to abstract the concrete base, and ‘-seuleob-’ shows to come close to nature of base while maintaining the substance of base somewhat.

This study is the first study that aims to analyze the Buddhist meaning of ‘The Travel for Searching Happiness.’ Although in the folktale ‘the transcendental who manages the blessing’ and ‘the designation of the transcendental world as the destination of travel’, etc. strongly represent Buddhist features, the interpretation of the Buddhist perspective has only partially existed. The motive for the traveling is interpreted not as ‘penury’ but as ‘a state of suffering’, that is, not obtained even when trying hard to get something. As the characters whom the protagonist met while traveling are united into one, ‘the idea of equality’ of Buddhism and ‘yeon-gi-beop’ could be found. Regardless of class, gender, or age, all beings are experiencing the suffering, and the travel of the protagonist is interpreted as experiencing the whole world. ‘Chintamani’ is interpreted not as ‘property’ but as implementing that the protagonist became ‘a different level of existence.’ In addition, the meaning of the travel is understood as ‘go-jib’ being ‘myeol-do’, and the protagonist becoming from ‘beom-bu-jung-saeng’ to a ‘bosal.’ Also, as the protagonist conveys the Buddha's lessons to others in the state of 'absence of ego' and solves everyone's 'suffering', the true meaning of 'bok(blessing)' is interpreted as ‘mu-wi-bok’ from Geumganggyeong