일본어 형용사 유의어의 사전 의미 기술과공기어 분석을 통한 의미 변별 연구

Abstract

There are many synonymous vocabularies of Japanese adjectives which shows delicate semantic differences. Here, the synonymous vocabularies may mean the cases of meaning overlapping, meaning connection, or meaning inclusiveness. This paper studies the synonymous vocabularies of the ‘atarashii’ class (atarashii, maatarashii, arata, sinsen, and huressyu), and tries to figure out distinctive factors through the research of co-occurrent words in authentic contexts. As for the individual semantic description of synonymous vocabularies of Japanese adjectives, this paper compares the pieces of information from Japanese dictionaries and Japanese-Korean dictionaries, and then studies the aspects of emergence of co-occurrent words of adjectives through Japanese corpus BCCWJ. According to the research results, the hierarchy with respect to frequency of use is atarashii > arata > sinsen > huressyu > maatarashii. According to research result of the corpus, there are several kinds of co-occurrence with 4, 3, or 2 synonymous vocabularies of adjectives according to the aspects of co-occurrent words. Also, co-occurrent words and the synonymous adjectives are different with respect to the types of vocabularies. The synonymous vocabularies of adjectives are ‘atarashii’ and ‘arata’ which have the most co-occurrent words. As for the aspects of co-occurrent words in the corpus, we can infer that the adjective ‘maatarashii’ has more strong tendency of co-occurrence by combining with concrete objects. It means that case has a distinctive semantic characteristic different from other synonyms.