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Meaning Transfer of Korean State Nouns

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2005, 18(), pp.1-22
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

차 준 경 1

1고려대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

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.

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