한국어 형용사의 의미 유형과 통사적 특성의 상관관계

Abstract

This study aims to reveal the correlation between the semantic types and syntactic characteristics of Korean adjectives. For this, it observed how Korean adjectives appear in accordance with research results in the field of typology. For this, some Korean adjectives were selected and categorized by type according to the semantic types of Dixon (2004) and their syntactic characteristics were observed in Corpus data. After the syntactic characteristic result values were compared according to semantic type, similar results were shown regardless of semantic type but in the case of several types, tendencies that differ from other types were discovered in particular syntactic characteristics. In particular, adjectives that belong to the semantic types of human propensity, speed, and difficulty showed similar result values in several syntactic characteristics. To verify whether these result values were properly analyzed, cluster analysis was conducted on several syntactic characteristic values and they were reconfirmed after being schematized into a graph. By observing which semantic types were closer and which were farther on the graph, it was easy to figure out the similarities of the syntactic characteristics between each semantic type. The types of human propensity, speed, and difficulty in which syntactic characteristics were shown to be similar were located closer on the graph. It is predicted that much more distinct tendencies will be discovered showing how the relationship between meanings and syntactic characteristics appears by type if the sample is made larger and syntactic characteristics are subdivided more elaborately in future work.