영어 형용사 ‘heavy’와 한국어 형용사 ‘무겁다’의 의미 비교

Abstract

This study investigates the meaning of the adjective HEAVY by comparing the English adjective ‘heavy’ and its Korean corresponding expression ‘mugeopda’. To accomplish this goal, the lexical typology presented by François(2008) has been adopted. It introduces the term collexification which refers to instances where two or more functionally different senses are expressed in the same lexical form. This also focuses on the senses of the two adjectives and includes semantic maps, which are comprised of etic grid and emic categorization of the adjectives. The outcomes from the research are as follows; the adjective HEAVY has four core senses, {weight}, {amount}, {burden} and {force}, and each sense is divided into its smaller semantic areas according to the types of noun collocations. For example, {weight} has two areas: <human> and <non-human>, {amount}: <used> and <loaded>, {burden}: <mental> and <disciplinary>, <atmospheric>, and <disease>, {force}: <intensive>. The English adjective ‘heavy’ has all four senses while Korean ‘mugeopda’ has only two senses, {weight} and {burden}. Also, the English adjective ‘heavy’ colexies most of the senses, except for some senses belonging to {weight} and {burden}. For Korean adjective ‘mugeopda’, it does not colexify <texture> in the sense of {weight}.