2018, Vol.60, No.

Korean Semantics 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.11

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

This paper is aimed at examining how learners of Korean language acquired and used the polysemy of Korean particle ‘(eu)ro’. the meanings of ‘(eu)ro’ were given in detail up to 16 in the dictionaries. In the prior study, the basic meaning of ‘(eu)ro’ was considered ‘path’, while ‘direction’ and ‘means’ were given in the Korean language textbooks. The data were collected in the Korean learners’ corpus and the results of analyzing the languages of Chinese and Japanese learners are as follows: Both Chinese and Japanese learners expressed 11 meanings using ‘(eu)ro’. Both groups of learners frequently used ‘(eu)ro’ to represent the ‘means’, especially the means of transport and the language. And as learners became more proficient, they used ‘(eu)ro’ to express a broader range of meanings. In addition, both groups of learners were also able to represent 9 meanings of ‘(eu)ro’ when they were intermediate level. This suggests that the polysemy of Korean particle can be acquired, and it can also occur in intermediate level.

This paper aims to introduce the research trends in the use of web corpus for linguistic research and discuss related some issues from the perspective of corpus linguistics. Web corpus still seems to be still considered as a dirty and difficult type of data by most linguists. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that the web as corpus is a very useful resource in the sense that it provides a breadth of free data and is updated on daily basis so as to track recent language changes and supplement grammars and dictionaries. This study investigates the previous research trends and look into critical issues related web corpus research. Chapter 2 discusses trends in related to web corpus research and reviews in particular the two notions of ‘web as corpus’ and ‘web for corpus’. Chapter 3 deals with the issues on web corpus in terms of (3.1) representativeness, (3.2) immediacy and (3.3) genre and register. Finally, chapter 4 examines the implications of the web corpus as a dynamic corpus from the point of view of corpus linguistics.

Vocabularies go through formation, development, extinction phases. The development and change of vocabularies arise from a variety of causes. The aspects of changes come from phonemics, morphemics and semantics. The meaning reinforcement is a reflection of the emphasis desire of the public. This is a natural property of languages. The meaning reinforcement includes psychological, grammatical and functional properties. This study treats the change of vocabularies by the meaning reinforcement of the pubic. In chapter 2, the concept and category of the meaning reinforcement are discussed. In chapter 3, changes of vocabularies by the meaning reinforcement are discussed on the aspects of phonemics, morphemics and semantics. First, on the aspect of phonemics, glottalization changes, vowel harmony and umlaut are discussed. Second, on the aspect of morphemics, derivatives and compounds are discussed. Third, on the aspect of semantics, semantic redundancy and marked clauses are discussed.