- 會議論文
조사 '에게'와 결합하는 무정물 명사의 유정성 연구
Study on the animacy of Korean inanimate nouns combined with 'ege'
並列摘要
This research aims to find out inanimate nouns are recognized as animate nouns. Presupposing Korean postposition 'ege' represents an animacy of the preceding noun, the research analyzed examples of nouns which are combined with 'ege'. Based on Yamamoto(1999)'s psycholinguistic discussion on animacy, Yoo(2007) and Kim(2010) discussed that postposition 'ege' is the marker of the animacy in Korean. Through inductive research, these studies improved existing deductive studies by position of the typological theory. Then they observed features of the animacy in individual language specifically. Sharing context with them, this research find examples of the inanimate nouns combined with 'ege' for analyzing inanimate nouns considered as animate. The study use balanced corpus as research materials, which is consist of 3,000,000 words. However, examples are a few. Preceding inanimate nouns are 'means of transportation', 'computer', 'human shape', 'celestial bodies', and some concrete nouns and abstract nouns. Causes that the of the preceding inanimate nouns recognized as animate nouns are 'speakers' intentionality', 'speakers' empathy', 'nouns' localistic characteristics', 'nouns' organizational characteristics' and 'nouns' intellect ability and motor ability'. Besides inanimate nouns personified and inferred as animacy are recognized as animate nouns by speakers as well. Finally, through this study, animacy is determined by tendency speaker think. However, inanimate nouns are recognized as animate nouns by a judgment about their humane attribute.