2005, Vol.18, No.

Korean Semantics 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.11

pISSN : 1226-7198 / eISSN : 2734-0171
https://journal.kci.go.kr/semantics

This paper deals with Korean state nouns that can be interpre ted as multiple meaning. We focus on the usage of state nouns with a contextual variation. To find out the logical relationship between multiple meaning, we classify them as a property and relation. Property is composed of human property, artifact property, event property, and place and time property. Relation is composed of time relation, place relation and social relation. State (property) nouns can be referred to entity type that is modified by the property. These phenomena happen to when the relation of property and entity is closely associated or fixed. In State (Relation) nouns, we found place concept word can be referred to social concept word. Also social concept word can be used to refer to human entity type. In this case, contextual meaning of noun is related to the semantic structure of a word, and the possible contextual meaning is underspecified in the lexical semantic structure. The specific contextual meaning can be realized by the contextual effect such as combining with adjectives and verbs. Multiple meaning of state nouns is closely related to each other, even though they are different semantic types. Possible multiple meaning can be represented in the lexical semantic structure.

The function of Korean disjunction word 'kurona' is to cut off all the expectations or implicatures of preceding sentence so that the description of the following sentence can be liberated from any of the presuppositions of the preceding sentence. In result, the disjunction of two sentences has the effect of contrast. When there are lexical opposition or symmetrical arrangement of grammatical structure between the sentences, they might be interpreted as having an antagonistic relationship. But this antagonistic feature is not coming from the conjunction 'kurona' itself but the lexical of grammatical surroundings. 'kurona' just disconnect the flow of semantic relation of two sentences. In that case the contrast is objective. The targets of contrast, the preceding or following propositions which 'kurona' combines could be subjective or implicative. On the more, 'kurona' can block some part of implicatures of the preceding sentence. It is especially used for emphasis or development of text description. This function is not found for the endings of the similar function.

This paper aims to study the verb “hilhuda” intensively. There are many verbs which are compounded of ‘-hilhuda(힐우다)’ in old Korean literatures. We came to the conclusion as follows; (1) The present dictionaries of old Korean give no mention of such words as ‘machohilhuda(마초힐후다), bwitrihilhuda(뷔트리힐후다), jurihilhuda(주리힐후다), trihilhuda(트리힐후다), hyeohilhuda(혀힐후다)’. (2) We examined the meaning of the ‘-hilhuda’ verbs and re-defined their meanings. (3) We found that the common meaning of the ‘-hilhuda’ verbs is [repetition] or [transfer] (4) We also found that the meaning of the verb {hilhuda} is [dispute] or [argument]. (5) We assume that the original meaning of ‘-hilhuda’ and {hilhuda} may be [repetition] or [transfer].