The purpose of this paper is to specify semantic standards for the clarification of technical terms, and to apply them in a real thesaurus building process Based on semantic componential analysis, we examine potential criteria, and try to select relevant ones and to classify them in a hierarchical order Chapter 2 investigates two current semantic standards for thesaurus bui..
The purpose of this study is to explore the aspects of the meaning extension of the Taste-terms The basic meaning of Taste-terms are extended by subjectivity and impressive judgement of the subject when feeling a taste First, Taste-terms ``(sweet)`` and ``(bitter)`` are extended to whole taste of the food with meaning of the delicious or tasteless Secondly, the tas..
This paper deals with the pragmatic elements concerned with the sounds of utterance I discuss about various phonological devices to express pragmatic elements appearing throughout the vocal sounds, not only prosodic but phonemic and phonetic as well It is shown that the sounds play an important part in indicating the meaning of utterances on pragmatic level such as the illo..
The purposes of this study is to show the development aspect of the expansion of questions in children`s conversation The expansion of question can be classified into the questions` performance reinforcement and the question activity`s expansion And these can be divided into sub-category We examine the development aspect of expansive questions` sub-category by age When it..
A vocative construction of Korean has two functions identifying and expressive While the identifying function is the fundamental element in a vocative construction, the expressive function play a key role in its actual employment A vocative construction is not possible unless the expressive function is not fulfilled ``Family name``, ``first name``, or ``family name firs..
This paper aims to formalize korean negational expressions with predicate-quantificational logic and convert them into OWL ontologies As domain experts` knowledge and information are used to be described with negational expressions, it is necessary and important to formalize them into logical form and convert them into ontologies OWL furnishes two properties, ``owlcompl..
The purpose of this research is to analyze the syntactic structure and the semantic feature of ``weather terms`` {be (rain)} and to present the syntactic and semantic information for natural language processing To undertake the syntactic and semantic analysis, the data were collected from the following sources ``the weather forecast`` on the Korean Broadcasting System News..
In a cognitive linguistic approach, metaphor is to understand one thing in terms of another For example, we metaphorically understand some abstract concepts as some objects existing in physical world Such metaphorical understanding is reflected in language This paper explores metaphorical extensions of THING concepts in Korean using corpus data to reveal how Korean lang..
The grammatical form ``-dorok`` had two basic meanings, [till], [deepening] in the early medieval Korean The use of ``-dorok`` of [deepening] decreased gradually Consequently we cannot find its usage any more from the nineteenth century It is because a single grammatical form ``-dorok`` had heavy functional load, and because ``-dorok`` of [deepening] was all the way in a..
This study is to investigate substitutional characteristics of non-deitic substitute Substitute is divided into deitic subsitute and non-deitic substitute Non-deitic subtitutes are defective pronoun, verb ``hada``, numerals Defective noun(geos, i, bun) substitutes nominals and verb ``hada`` substitutes verbals Numerals substitute (hana, dulcheosjjae, duljjae) preced..
This paper gives some descriptions of Korean ending ``-ji(yo)`` in internet blog Nowadays blog is an prominent medium, in which communications are done as spoken language Korean ending ``-ji(yo)`` has some peculiar meanings and they has been investigated in spoken language In this paper, some meanings and uses of ``-ji(yo)`` are descripted in written language I assume the..
This thesis is to analysis the meaning of ``-ִ`` by the Construction Grammatical approach Constructions have typical frame meaning of verbs in sentences There are three constructions related wih ``-ִ`` verb combination That is, Dative construction, transitive construction, intransitive construction We examined closely the meaning and function of ``-ִ`` verb c..
This paper aims at examining of the notion of transparency and giving an explanation to several phenomena in Korean Language Usages with the concept of transparency I have dealt with the lexicalization, the overlapping of synonymous words, semantic distortion with a Chinese character, making the proper nouns` transparency indistinct, and ensuring the transparency by usin..
The purpose of this study is to examine the types of the conventional pre-nominal form of Korean verb and to consider how we can determine the category of these types Some Korean verbs are only appeared on the form of modifying use not using on the form of predicative In this study, the types of the conventional pre-nominal form of Korean verb are divided to three types A firs..