부사 ‘순전’의 의미 고찰

The study on the Meanings of ‘Sunjeon’ : Concerning the Category of Sino-Korean root forms and 'Sunjeonhada and Sunjeonhi'

The purpose of this paper is to describe 'Sunjeon', which is the root form of the adjective form 'Sunjeonhada', as an independent two-syllable Korean adverb, and to examine its lexical meanings. First of all, this paper researches how two-syllable Sino-Korean roots from the adjective form of 'X-hada' are categorized, and how 'Bunmyeong' that has the same trace as 'Sunjeon' is classified. This paper addresses the various meanings of 'Sunjeonhada' and 'Sunjeonhi' respectively in diachronic linguistics. 'Sunjeon' is the '-hi' omitted form of 'Sunjeonhi', the adverb form which is derived from 'Sunjeonhada'. 'Sunjeonhada' means 'purity or completeness' and 'only N, or all N'. Originally, 'Sunjeonhi' had the meanings of 'purity or completeness' and 'only N/VP or all N/VP'. Meanwhile, 'Sunjeonhi' as 'purity or completeness' has not been spoken since the latter 20th century. Compared to 'Sunjeonhi', 'Sunjeon' takes meanings of 'only N/VP or all N/VP'. 'Sunjeon' is widely used in spoken Korean.