합성명사와 합성법의 변화

Abstract

This paper is on diachronic change which occurred from middle Korean to contemporary Korean in word-formation of compound nouns made by combination of nouns. I examined word-formation of compound nouns in three ways. First, the way that nouns are combined directly without inserting component have continued without changes since middle Korean. The most compound nouns have been made by this way, but it is difficult to distinguish them from phrase. Second, the way that sai-siot is inserted between nouns has had many changes from middle Korean to contemporary Korean. Sai-siot was used for genitive case marker in middle Korean, and in modern Korean it was used mostly for compound marker with funtion-change. In contemporary Korean it is used for compound marker in some words. In contemporary Korean, sai-siot has played a role to firmly combine two components, and compound nouns made by sai-siot are distinguished from phrases. Third way is the type that clipping occurs when compound noun is made by the combination of nouns. There are clipping of phoneme and that of syllable. And clipping of syllable is divided into clipping of same syllables and that of different ones. Such clipping has a role to firmly combine two components like sai-siot. From now on we have called the word made by clipping of different syllables blends. But clipping of different syllables happened in middle Korean and the word made by that way can be classified as compound nouns.