형용사를 구성 요소로 포함하지 않은 합성 형용사의 특성 연구

Abstract

In this paper, I examined the types and semantic characteristics of 126 compound adjectives that do not include adjectives as components(I call these as “adjectiveless compound adjectives”), which are listed in the 『Standard Korean Dictionary』. First of all, depending on the grammatical categories of the constituents, they could be divided into two types where the grammatical categories of the constituents were clear and where they were not. The former were divided into “noun+verb, root of a word+verb, adverb+verb, verb+verb, verb+auxiliary verb, dependent noun+verb”, and the latter were divided into types where the preceding element was unclear, where the succeeding element was unclear, and where both the preceding and succeeding elements were unclear. Next, depending on the meaning of components and the semantic association of the “adjectiveless compound adjectives”, there were types where the semantic association between the components was clear and types where it was not. The latter was again the type where the semantic association between the preceding or succeeding element was unclear, and the type where the semantic association between the preceding and succeeding elements was unclear. Finally, based on these, I examined determinants of the grammatical category of the “adjectiveless compound adjectives” with the following hypotheses: First, in terms of grammatical categories, one of the components exhibits the characteristic of an adjective. Second, in terms of semantics, if the meaning of the preceding and succeeding elements is not related to the “adjectiveless compound adjectives”, it may be related to semantic transfer.