국어 부사어의 실현 양상

The Realization of Korean Adverbials － Focusing on ‘adjectival stem+ke’ and ‘adjectival root+i’ －

There are two types of adverbial expressions derived from adjectival roots in Korean such as (i)the wordform that an adjective stem affixed by the inflectional morpheme ‘ke’ and (ii)the wordform that an adjective root affixed by the derivational morpheme ‘i/ hi’. This paper discussed the discrepancy of these two types of adverbials and the realization of them in the sentence. Comparing with other types of adverbials, these two types of adverbials show the general characteristics of adverbials in Korean. They are related to the meaning of verbs and modifies the meaning of verbs. However, these type of adverbials haver the different characteristics that cannot find in other types of adverbials. They can be read as the predicate in a clause. In addition, the sentences with these types of adverbials are ambiguous. Based on these distinctive characteristics, this study suggested that these types of adverbials can modify various “semantic units” (proposition, eventuality, and lexeme) rather than “syntactic units”(sentence, verb phrase, and verb). As a result, the sentences with these types of adverbials may be interpreted variously depending on the modifying semantic unit. In addition, the discrepancy between the ‘adjectival stem+ke’ adverbial expression and the ‘adjectival root+i’ adverbial expression was found in the discrepancy of their favorite modified units.