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Research on the opposition of dimensional adjectives: the case of gipda 'deep' and yata 'shallow'

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2007, 23(), pp.57-76
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

박선영 1 Ki-Sun Hong 1

1서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

Park, Sun-young & Hong, Ki-sun. 2007. Research on the opposition of dimensional adjectives: the case of gipda 'deep' and yata 'shallow'. Korean Semantics, 23. Spatial dimension terms generally have been argued to have pairs of antonyms. However, a closer look at those objects they are applied to shows that those pairs are not in exact symmetrical relation. Particularly dimensional adjectives designating depth have been strongly suspected of their opposition in that they have some noticeable differences in comparison with other dimension terms. For example, the frequency data show huge gap between gipda 'deep' and yata 'shallow'. Also cross linguistically some languages do not have distinct lexical terms corresponding to yata even though they have ones corresponding to gipda.In this paper we consider the opposition between dimensional adjectives gipda and yata on the basis of corpus data. First we extract and analyze spatial object terms which occur together with gipda and yata. Then we work on the meanings of dimensional terms gipda and yata and their opposition. In conclusion we suggest that gipda and yata have their own semantic range and they are in opposition just when referring to the obejcts which have both opening and bottom in them.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.