국어의 고유어 접두사 선정에 관한 고찰

Abstract

The purpose of this study lies in coming up with a definite criterion for selecting a corpus of native Korean prefixes which form the basis of derivatives in the modern Korean language and according to the established criterion, investigate the validity of the selected native prefixes that already exist in 6 major Korean dictionaries. It was noted that the prefixes that have been inserted into the 6 current Korean dictionaries are different from each other, so attempts have been made accordingly to come up with a plan to round up all of them together in this paper. Amongst the myriad of criteria that exist in selecting prefixes, the 'change of meaning', 'morphological dependencies' and 'inseparability' were suggested for the commonalization or generalization process. Under these criteria, amongst the prefixes that can be found in 6 mainstream dictionaries, overlapping entries were eliminated and amongst the 136 prefixes that were picked, 96 prefixes whose origin could be indentified by going through a lexicalization process from being a common vocabulary were tested to see if they met the conditions of beling selected. As a result of the validity test in being selected as prefixes, the prefixes shortlisted for elimination were as follows; amongst the prefixes that originated from being substantives(nouns), '간1 (gan1 ), 겹-(gyeop-), 배내-(baenae-), 소-(so-), 쇠1 (sae1 ), 홑-(hot-), 숫2 (sut2 )', among the prefixes that have predicates as their origin '졸-(jol-), 줄2 (jul2 ), 간2 (gan2 ), 다가-(daga-), 들이2 (deulie2 ), 에-(e-)', adjective originated prefixes of '늦-(neut-), 옥-(ok-), 된-(daen-)', amongst the prefixes that have originated from modifiers and also have adjectives as roots '뭇 -(mut-), 새2 (sae2 ), 옛-(yet-), 온-(on-), 이듬-(ideum-), 첫-(cheot-), 허튼 -(heoteun-)', amongst the prefixes that have adverbs as its root '갓 -(gat-), 들이1 (deuli1 ), 몽당-(mongdang-)'. Through the above mentioned process, amongst the 136 prefixes that were selected for testing, other than the 26 that were eliminated, about 110 native prefixes were finally settled on. Determiners and prefixes have similar grammatical functions and not much difference in meaning so for prefixes that have originated from determiners, they were given the suggestion of being set up as root words. It is hoped that through the results of this study which reinvestigated into the basic concept of prefixes could have a partial contribution in publishing new dictionaries or in everyday Korean language usage.