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Boundary between Lexical Category and Grammatical Category in Korean Language Education for Foreigners

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2010, 32(), pp.123-140
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Yang, Myunghee 1

1중앙대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study aims to draw the boundary between lexical category and grammatical category in Korean Language education for foreigners. Many important chunk of language include grammatical items like postpositions, endings, and bound nouns. Therefore, lexical expressions like ‘-gi ttaemune(-기 때문에), -e daehayeo(-에 대하여)’ are included in grammatical category classified as sentence patterns in some Korean textbooks. Since although these include grammatical items, the meaning and usage of these expressions is lexical, these must be classified as lexical expressions in lexical category. The chunk of language can be devided as sentence patterns and lexical expression to draw a line between lexical category and grammatical category. ‘N+ida(copula)’ like ‘dahaeng+ida(다행이다), nareum+ida(나름이다)’ to be considered as a predicate because it acts as a predicate in Korean sentence patterns. The sentence patterns have a predicate, it can be taught as grammatical category. But predicates in sentence patterns have various meanings and functions, they are taught as lexical category.

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