상태성과 동작성에 대한 고찰

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to take a closer look at the distinction of state and activity that have been recognized as a criterion classifying verbs, and to examine how it is applied to meaning analysis of verbs and founding a system of verb classification. In this paper, I argue that the distinction of state and activity isnot always clear, therefore it cannot be a absolute condition that makeajudgementofa homonym, and also because stateandactivityarenotdiscriminateevenat seme level sometimes, the traditional method of classifying verbs, i.e. active verbs and state verbs can be the question at issue. The verbs that belong to the same semantic category can be analysed more systematic though the distinction of state and activity, for instance jeom-ta(“be young”) and neuk-ta(“be old”). But, to analyse the verbs that distinction of state and activity is not discriminate at seme level, for instance jeri-ta(“be sore”) or keolri-ta(“be stiff”), we need to discriminate the level of semantic features like state or activity from the level of part-of-speech like state verbs or active verbs As a consequence,asemanticfeature of the state verbs can be shown like [+state][-active] and that of the active verbs can be shown like[+active][-state].Theverbsthat have a [+state][+active] features are dealt as a middle category of state verbs and active verbs.