四字成語의 유형과 문법

Abstract

A Study on the Four Character Idiomatic Phrases Nam, Mi-hye The purpose of this paper is to research the range and the morphological expansion and declensions of Korean idioms which are composed of four Chinese characters. In the first place, we carefully looked into the set of data to find out a criterion to make the range of the Chinese four character idiomatic phrases. Data analysis was made by both the possibility of analysis and the replaceability of other constituents. The set of data was also classified the four character phrases and the four character idiomatic phrases by the internal structure and morphological characterigation. Our analysis shows that, in terms of morphology, most of good part of Chinese four character idiomatic phrases are derived into various words or phrases in combination with Korean suffix ‘-hada’, and on the other hand, conjugated with Chinese affixes e.g. ‘-jeok(的), sik(式), gyeok(格)’. However, some idiomatic phrases, which are restricted to the affixation, appear to be combined with Korean clitics such as ‘-ui, -euro, -e and Ø’. These combined forms enter in turn into idiomatic use of expression with combination of some predicates.