한국어 증가 구문의 의미 혼동과 인지 양상

Abstract

The Korean noun ‘bae(배, multiple times)’ has meaning variants under thecondition of the existence of the adjective, and may well affect the occurrence ofthe meaning confusion especially in the increment constructions which arecharacterized by the concatenation of the multiplicational word ‘bae’ and theincrement verb ‘jeunggahada(증가하다, increase)’. The meaning confusions observed in the multiplicational expressions are not tobe regarded as just a phenomenon to be described in linguistic researches but aserious problem to be recognized and settled down by the native speakers andlinguists. With this regard, a increment construction is chosen to show the nativespeakers' recognition of the meaning confusion and its changing phase through thequestioning items in the questionnaire. The questionnaire is designed to arouse the native speakers' grammaticality andthus to stimulate the recognition of the meaning confusion or misunderstandingmostly unnoticed in the daily usages of the constructions. Among the 30questioning items in the questionnaire the first 3 items and the last 3 items togetherplay the most important roles to reveal the changing phase of the grammaticalrecognition lying dormant in the native speakers' subconsciousness. According to the analysis of the responses to the questionnaire, the nativespeakers are ready to conform to the grammatical formations that do not cause themeaning confusions anyway in the structures. Backed up by the consequences ofthe questionnaire, some expression modelling examples are offered for the purpose of the comparison and correction of the increment constructions, which may be ofsome use to treat the meaning confusions in the contemporary Korean usages.