코퍼스에 근거한 현대중국어‘V+在+장소’구문의 의미 분석 - 장소구문의 동사 분포 양상을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This paper discusses the semantic characteristics regardingdistribution and limitation of verbs of ‘Zai-location verb’ sentences and‘verb-Zai location’ sentences in modern Chinese. Frequency in use of‘Zai-location verb’ sentences and ‘verb-Zai location’ sentences in modernChinese is high in actual utterance, but learners of Chinese havedifficulty in learning those sentences. The semantic characteristics ofthese two sentences is generally regarded as occurrence location orarrival location. According to the statistical analysis using corpus,however, these two sentences have a correlation with verb when appliedto actual linguistic circumstances and show semantic differencesaccording to it. While ‘Zai-location verb’ sentences emphasize theduration of location, ‘verb-Zai location’ sentences emphasize the positionof location. According to the principle of information organization,‘verb-Zai location’ sentences focus on location. This paper basically agreesto this, however it is noteworthy that in ‘verb-Zai location’ sentencesfrequency in use of position verbs is considerably high.