A Study on the Meaning and Function of “geumankeum” as an sentence adverb (부연의 문장 부사로서 ‘그만큼’의 의미와 기능에 대하여 - 추론적 부연의 범주 설정과 연계하여 -)

Chae-hun Yim (임채훈)

A Study on the Meaning and Function of “geumankeum” as an sentence adverb

Korean Semantics
2018, 62(), pp.51-71
Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
Published : December 30, 2018

Chae-hun Yim ¹

¹숭실대학교

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ABSTRACT

“Geumankeum” is known as an adverb representing “as much(many)/to that extent”. So it is described in the dictionaries that it is used only in its meaning, ‘proportional equivalence’. However, this paper argues that the adverb has the additional function to connect the sentence in the meaning of the expatiation. In this process, it said that it is necessary to set up a function that is called ‘inferential expatiation’. I also examined the ending expressions that emerged together with “geumankeum” in this semantic function. The contents of each chapter are summarized as follows. In section 2, I objectively demonstrated that this adverb has a unique function, distinct from the conventionally proposed function. To this end, I looked at the unique syntactic and semantic features that appear when used as the function. In section 3, I distinguished between concepts of ‘paraphrase’ and ‘expatiation’. In doing so, I identified the unique characteristics of ‘expatiation’ and then specified the meaning function of “geumankeum” as the basis. In section 4, I established the semantic features of the sentence including this adverb. I suggested that because of these features, there are various end expressions that are co-occurred in the sentences.

KEYWORDS

inferential expatiation, sentence adverbs, conjunctive relation, paraphrase, ending expressions, proportional equivalence, implicature, co-occurrence relation, synonymy, conjunction

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