‘색’과 ‘빛’ 계열 합성 명사의 형태·의미론적 고찰

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate into some properties of color compound words in Korean. Especially our research will be focused upon the types of '-색' construction and '-빛' construction. There are some subtle differences between these two types of color compound words in the aspects of morphology and semantics. For a start, we can find out that many color compound nouns contain '색' or '빛 as the second root in the process of word formation. Therefore we intensively argue these types of words. At second, we observe what are common properties and differences between '색' and '빛' in some dictionaries. Through this observation, we verify the root '색' directly represents the typical conception of 'color', on the contrary the root '빛‘, even though it is related to the conception of 'color', indirectly has relevance with it. '빛' will be find out to be insufficiently direct than '색' in the aspect of 'color'. At third, we tentatively present some lists of the color compound words which have '색' and '빛' from corpus. And then for a detailed description about the characteristics of '색‘ or ’빛‘, we inspect diverse morphological and semantic properties of first roots which proceed second roots '색' or '빛'.