‘雖然’의 어휘화 연구

Abstract

In this paper, the lexicalization process of ‘雖然’ was examined in detail by age. In ancient Chinese, ‘雖然’ was most often used during the early Modern age(近古). ‘雖然’, which was used separately for each word, began to be used together from the Ancient times(上古). Although they began to be used continuously during the Ancient times(上古), ‘雖’ and ‘然’ still indicated the original meaning of each word. In the Middle ages(中古), the role of ‘雖然’ began to change. ‘然’ gradually began to lose its function as a predicate pronoun and ‘雖然’ began to be used as a conjunction that indicates a conversion relationship. Also, the forward linking element of ‘雖然’ began to be used from this period. However, there was a disagreement about the occurrence time of ‘雖然’ lexicalization among scholars. But this paper considered that lexicalization began to occur during the Tang(唐) dynasty based on examples in CCL. Afterwards, ‘雖然’' was used universally in the early Modern age(近古) and was used most frequently in Qing(清) dynasty. As a result of CCL search, it was found that ‘雖然’ was used as a conversion conjunction in most example sentences in Modern times(現代) and after lexicalization process, it became a single word. However, even in the modern Chinese corpus, there are some example sentences that ‘雖然’ was used separately for each word. So there are still some exceptional situations. Therefore it cannot be concluded that ‘雖然’ plays role as a transitional conjunction in all sentences.