한 ․ 중 동형어의 쓰임 異同 연구

A Study on the Differences and Similarities of Usages of Sino-Korean Synonyms

This study observed the differences in the usages of Sino-Korean Synonyms, and investigated the differences and similarities from several perspectives. The characteristics observed in the corresponding relationships between two languages are as follows: 1) The words of the same usage in Korean and Chinese are mainly adjectives, nouns, and gerunds. 2) The parts of speech with a higher frequency of different usages are [+ADN] and [+ADV]. 3) Apart from the parts of speech, [+ADJ] and [+N], other Sino-Korean synonyms generally share the same usages and other usages with Korean. 4) For Sino-Korean words with more than 2 usages, the meanings in Chinese are usually the same as those in Korean; or a part of usages are the same, but there are also other usages. 5) If the usages of Sino-Korean Synonyms are the same, there is almost no difference in semantics. Under the situation where the usages are different, there are usually differences in semantics. This study found that the inconsistency in usages of Sino-Korean synonyms is highly correlated with the difference in function, difference in semantics, whether they are free morpheme, difference in part of speech conversion method, and system of parts of speech.