중국어의 한자어와 비한자어- 자모어의 출현을 계기로 본 중국어 어휘 범주의 착종 –

Abstract

This study analyzes that the Chinese lexical category has been divided into Sino words and non-Sino words due to the rapid increase of alphabetic words in the 1990s, and the internal composition of the two categories is by no means uniform, so the relationship with existing lexical categories is bound to be confusing. First of all, the existing studies set up the concept of alphabetic words as a concept that refers to all word forms that are written with the alphabet, but this study confirmed that there are words that are written in the alphabet but cannot be considered as pure alphabetic words, and defined alphabetic words as words that exist only in alphabetic form, in terms of the essence of the word form. In this way, even if we strictly define alphabetic words based on the nature of the word form, there are both loan words and native Chinese word forms within Sino words and alphabetic words, respectively, and if we further subdivide native words and loan words into native Sino words, Chinese alphabetic words, loan-translations(calques), Sino-xenic words, hybrid words, and phonetic loans, each lexical category does not form a consistent spectrum with the two categories of Sino words and alphabetic words. This is different from the distribution of native words, Sino words, and loan words on a single horizon in Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese, and can be attributed to the characteristics of the Chinese lexical system, which has long been characterized by the use of only Sino forms(Hanzici), and the Chinese environment, which is characterized by self-creating alphabetic words.