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A study on Tensing, Meaning and Real Pronunciation in Dictionary Information of monosyllabic Sino-Korean words

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2019, 64(), pp.85-106
  • DOI : 10.19033/sks.2019.6.64.85
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Received : May 20, 2019
  • Accepted : June 19, 2019
  • Published : June 30, 2019

Yu Kyung-Min 1

1전주대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this paper is to examine nominal compounds involving monosyllabic Sino-Korean words that had been set aside as exceptions, and to propose an account for them. Most monosyllabic Sino-Korean words are semantically autonomous, but syntactically non-autonomous. And since the formation of compounds involving monosyllabic Sino-Korean words is unbound, the list of such vocabulary is open-ended. Therefore it is impossible to determine whether the monosyllabic Sino-Korean words are free or bound morphemes. It is also for this reason that the tensing in these words is not accountable with the same rules that apply in general phonological tensing. Studies on tensing so far have been limited to phonological conditions or to tensing in compounds. In order to overcome this limit, one must recognize the special nature of monosyllabic Sino-Korean vocabulary, and explain the tensing phenomenon without recourse to their syntactic status. Accordingly, I propose that tensing in monosyllabic Sino-Korean vocabulary be accounted for in three different categories: (1) phonologically conditioned tensing, (2) morphologically conditioned tensing, and (3) semantically conditioned tensing. It was found that whether the first monosyllable in a compound is a free or a bound morpheme is a factor in tensing, and that those monosyllables belonging to neither (1) or (2) have fixed invariant tensing with idiosyncratic meanings.

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