實體名詞의 意味形質 分析

Abstract

This study aims at laying an methodological foundation upon the provision of more specified semantic components of the substance noun of Korean by analyzing its semantic form and matter. Just as every existing substance of the world has its own features, the meaning of the word signifying its existence also has its own semantic features. The semantic features of the word are products of concepts created in the space of human spirit, and they have abstract semantic quality and quantity. First, the semantic form and matter refers to the unique semantic quality and quantity of a word, which is divided into two semantic atomics, form and matter. Form and mater refer to reference and sense, respectively. Secondly, the semantic domain of the substance noun can be spread in a sentence, and this, in turn, changes its semantic form and matter. Thirdly, the substance noun acts as a semantic constituent of a sentence, forming a partial meaning space in a whole meaning space of a sentence. It gains its own semantic form and matter through the self-organization among partial meaning spaces. Fourthly, the semantic form and matter of a word in isolation is different in semantic quality and quantity from that of a word acting as a semantic constituent of the sentence. A substance noun in isolation is the undivided whole of many sememes, and it gains a single sememe when it is related to other semantic constituents in a specific sentence. Fifthly, semantic form and matter can be divided into form semantic feature and matter semantic feature. The form semantic feature of a substance noun can be subdivided into unit, boundary, division, and continuity. The matter feature of a concrete noun can be dealt with the hierarchy of a semantic domain.