현대중국어‘很多’의 재해석에 의한 오류 분석

Abstract

This study starts from the point of recognizing the cause of error of Korean learners in ‘很多’ as errors due to reinterpretation. The Korean equivalent of Chinese ‘很多’ is ‘많다(many)’. ‘很多’ and ‘많다(many)’ correspond semantically, but there is a difference in distribution of linguistic items between two languages. For this reason, many Korean learners make errors when using ‘很多’. Therefore, the present study approaches from the viewpoint of contrastive analysis to examine the differences in the distribution of ‘很多’ and ‘많다(many)’, and further investigates learner’s error phenomenon and cause of ‘很多’ through corpus study. Chinese ‘很多’ has many restrictions in terms of structure, meaning and function compared to Korean ‘많다(many)’. The asymmetry in phrases, in word order and associations were found in the structural distribution between ‘很多’ and ‘많다(many)’, and there was also a difference in distribution of meaning. Errors due to reinterpretation may result in omission errors, additional errors, substitution errors, and word order errors. The difference in distribution between ‘很多’ and ‘많다(many)’ caused learners’ errors, and as a result of analyzing 102 erroneous sentences, the substitution error exceeded 50%, and the omission error reached 30%. Additional errors and word order errors were found relatively less than the other two. ‘很多’ is an expression that Korean learners learn at the beginner level and use frequently in their daily life. However, according to the difficulty level of Clifford Prator(1967), ‘很多’ corresponds to Level 3 which means the learning difficulty is quite high. Due to the difference in the distribution of linguistic items, learners may easily make errors if they do not master them properly. Thus, rather than thinking of ‘很多’ and ‘많다(many)’ as a one-to-one correspondence, teachers or learners need to clearly understand what differences exist in form or distribution of meanings, and recognize them as new language items to properly teach and learn.