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Research on Productivity of Korean Suffixes for Selecting Vocabulary of Korean Education

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2013, 40(), pp.521-547
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

감한샘 1

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ABSTRACT

'Word family' is the set including derived forms and inflected forms from base. We need a list of the type of affix to apply the concept of 'Word family' to Korean vocabulary selection. There are several criteria for affix classification; frequency, productivity, predictability and regularity of function and so on. Frequency is the number of words in which an affix occurs. Productivity is the likelihood that the affix will be used to form new words. Predictability is the degree of predictability of the meaning of the affix. And regularity of function is the degree to which the affix attaches to a base of known form-class and produces a word of known. The purpose of this paper is to measure the productivity of Korean suffixes. The formula is 'P = (n1+1)․T/N', which is originally based on Baayen(1989). As a result of analysis based on dictionary and corpus, we get the list of suffix ‘-i, -gi, -jil, -(eu)m’ in order of productivity. The result is in accord to the predictive value by intuition. Research on applying the result of measuring the criteria is to be followed.

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