2010, Vol.33, No.

Korean Semantics 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.11

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

This research aims to examine sentence patterns which contains the Korean indirect quotational marker {-ko} in the Learner's Dictionary of Korean (LDK), and to suggest an idea to improve LDK. It is well known that LDK is good to those who both study and teach Korean language, and that it has many useful sentence patterns of verbs. However, as for the indirect quotational marker {-ko} which is important to Korean language learning and teaching, LDK doesn't seem to be fully-equipped with informations of sentence patterns. So, I suggest that LDK should have more concrete and detailed information on the indirect quotational markers in favor of many foreigners who study Korean, but have little intuition of Korean language.

This thesis has purpose to examine the synonymy among ‘chaso, yacha, namul(vegetable)’ and establish the criteria in the class of vegetable synonyms. With this criteria for a basis, some ‘Fruit’ word-class and ‘Grain’ word-class having semantic relation with vegetable synonyms will be distinguished. In the earlier studies, the classification of vegetable word-class, fruit word-class, and grain word-class has been presented from the botanical point of view or biochemical point of view. ‘Woody plant’ or ‘herbaceous plant’ is botanically classified term. ‘Sweetness’ has been used as a biochemical criterion. But botanical or biochemical criteria are not enough and sufficient in the classifying synonyms. In this study humanities’ criteria or cultural criteria(especially korean food culture) are more appropriate to discriminate synonyms. Humanities’ criteria or cultural criteria will be applied to ‘Vegetable’ word-class(Chapter. 2). This criteria will be good for classifying the ‘Fruit’ word-class, ‘Grain’ word-class(Chapter. 3). Not only these ‘vegetable, fruit, grain’ word-class but also other boundary word-class in synonymy could be clarified with humanities’ criteria or cultural criteria.

This paper aims to investigate the correlation between patterns and functions of the Korean adjective ‘anida’ as a lexical negative and to examine how differently it is manifested between spoken and written corpus. The data used for this study mainly comes from the 21st Sejong Spoken Corpus consisting of educational books and naturally-occurring conversations and each of them is composed of 100,000 words. We randomly extract 200 sentences from each corpus. In order to analyze ‘anida’, we take the following procedures: First, the patterns of ‘anida’ construction are analyzed according to discourse-pragmatic context. we can discriminate between propositional negation patterns and discourse negation patterns. Second, based on the lexico-grammatical features, ‘anida’ constructions are categorized into 2 types of argument structure. Third, from a morphological point of view, we can discover some tendencies among various inflectional forms of ‘anida', The functions of ‘anida’ are correlated with not only lexico-grammatical feature of the constructions but also discourse-pragmatic context and inflectional forms.