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A Study on the principle of selecting argument of head noun and productivity between ‘N1-Sanyang, N1-Nakssi’

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2013, 40(), pp.111-139
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

MinJeong Jo 1

1연세대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study intends to investigate which factor makes the differences in selecting argument of head noun and productivity of ‘N1-sanyang, N1-nakssi’ compound words. Sanyang and nakssi are predicative nouns which make the compound word with its argument. However there are differences in selecting argument of predicative noun. N1 of sanyang is an instrumental argument, but N1 of nakssi are method, and place argument. What is more the productivity of two compound nouns are different. This study shows that the factor of selecting argument is under ‘foreground/background understanding’, ‘the avoid strategy of ambiguity’, and ‘the law of proximity’‘N1’ of ‘N1-sanyang’ is mainly a instrumental argument, but ‘N1’ of ‘N1-nakssi’ are method and places. The differences between those argument are originated that the speaker consider those are foreground factor. That's why those argument make the difference between two activities. The productivity of two compound nouns are explained by ‘the law of proximity’. If something is important in human life, new words which are around those thing are made productively. So there are differences between that two compound nouns.

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