近代國語의 單語形成에 대한 고찰

Abstract

AThis paper aims to discuss the characteristics of Word formation in Modern-ages Korean. We can solve some problems about Word formation in Korean by studying Modern-ages Korean. First, I discussed Insert ‘ㅅ’ in Korean. Until now, people think that Insert ‘ㅅ’ in Contemporary Korean differs from Insert ‘ㅅ’ in Middle Korean. That is, in Middle Korean Insert ‘ㅅ’ was used as a genitive, but in Contemporary Korean it is used as a mark in compound word. But I think there are two kinds of ‘ㅅ’ in Middle Korean, Some ‘ㅅ’ in Middle Korean marked the boundaries between morphemes. And others functioned as a genitive. In Modern-ages Korean the former ‘ㅅ’ disappeared, but some of the latter ‘ㅅ’ remained in compound word. Next, I discussed the characteristics of ‘Stem+Stem’ verb and ‘Stem++Stem’ verb. In derivation, I found some cases in which stems changes into prefixes, and nouns changes into suffixes in Modern-ages Korean. I conclude that the change of meaning is even more important than that of form in word-formation processes. And I studied the use of zero-derivative adverb in Modern-ages Korean, and I found that some of zero-derivative adverbs still had been used in contemporary Korean.