混成語의 位相에 대한 一考察

Abstract

Recently blending has become a very productive word-formation process in Korean. Blending is a word-formation process in which two independent words are combined into a new word with the shortening of at least one of the source words. Blends have point of similarity with compounds in terms of combing of two source words, but have difference with it in terms of shortening of at least one of the source words. Generally there are three viewpoints on blends. They are that blends is a subtype of compounds, or another type different from compounds, or replacement by the analogy. Blending is different from compounding in terms of shortening and arrangement of meanings. In blending mostly first component is core meaning, on the other hand in compounding second component is core meaning in no small measure. And sometimes blending is regarded as a way of replacement, but the type of replacement is different from the type of blending. In some cases in blending, appearances of being used like affixes occur. But we cannot regard them as affixes easily even though second components of compounds create many examples. And sometimes components regarded as prefixes get involved in blending. It shows that blending is different from not only compounding but also derivation.