KJCKorea
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As research on the settlement of loan words from a lexical viewpoint, this study analyzed the synonymic relation of loan adjectives of ‘English+hada’ type with their corresponding Sino‐Korean words and native words. The subjects of this study were 32’ adjectives of ‘English+hada’ type sampled from the entries of <Standard Korean Dictionary> and <Yonsei Korean Dictionary>, and corpus materials and Naver newspaper articles were used. Through this process, we defined the semantic domain occupied by this type of adjectives in the Korean language, and analyzed their synonymic relation with existing adjectives in three categories: those synonymous with existing words; those similar to existing words, and those without any synonymic relation with existing words. This study overcame limitations in previous studies in that it altered people’s attention from nouns, which have been the focus of previous studies on loan words, to adjectives and reilluminated loan words that have been considered redundant with existing Sino‐Korean words and native words or harmful to the purity of our language. Loan words will be imported and coined continuously as long as the speech community’s desire to create new words is not fully gratified. Our duty is continuity research on loan words, regarding them not simply as objects of cleanup but as our assets that enrich our language life along with existing words.

‘영어+하다’류 형용사, 고유어, 한자어, 순화어, 유의 관계, 외래어