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A study on the imbalance of Korean antonyms

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2014, 46(), pp.189-213
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

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ABSTRACT

This experiment was studied on the imbalance in the distribution of Korean antonym. First of all, the imbalance in the frequency of usage presented the phenomena that the one-side of antonym daeripssang was less used, or not used, even lacked. The imbalance in the frequency of usage could be divided into three phenomena. First, in the case of 'Less usage of one-side’ was made by neutralization phenomenon, for example, 'brother - sister'. Second, in the case of 'Not usage of one-side' was imbalance phenomenon that it was made by Korean vocabulary system, for example, 'city - rural community / country'. Also, imbalance phenomenon could be made by linguistic habits, for example, 'bridegroom - bride / wife'. Third, 'The phenomenon of lack of one-side' presented that it was formed linguistic empty on one-side of antonym. It was that the imbalance phenomenon was made by neutralization phenomenon, for example, 'President-Female President'. Or it was that the imbalance phenomenon was made by cultural awareness, for example, 'Satellite - Artificial satellite'. Then, for studying on the imbalance of coinage ability, this experiment was studied on word coinage of antonymous relations of syllable of three pairs, 'man-woman', 'much-less', 'exit-entrance'. The conclusion was a very great difference on word coinage ability of antonyms of this three pairs. The first major cause of presenting of this phenomenon was neutralization phenomenon, and it could be affected by limit of word coinage. Lastly, the imbalance of meaning distribution was divided into semantic change of one-side and semantic loss. The cause of semantic change was semantic change, and semantic loss was related with neutralization phenomenon, linguistic habits, word coinage restriction.

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