형용사를 수식하는 강조부사 Dead와 Deadly의 코퍼스 기반 연구

Abstract

Yu, Kyong-Ae. 2015. A Corpus-Based Study on Intensifiers Dead and Deadly Modifying Adjectives. Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics 15-2, 181-202. According to Donnor (1991), -ly adverbs derived from adjectives generally have more figurative and abstract meanings than the flat modal adverbs without the suffix in dual-form adverbs in Middle English. The intensifier deadly, however, can be related to its original meaning of “death” in English. In Blanco-Suárez (2013), the intensifiers dead and deadly from late 15th to early 20th century, which underwent a process of grammaticalization and subjectification, could suggest “death”or the meaning of “as if dead.” In order to diachronically and synchronically compare the meanings of intensifiers dead(ly), this study analyzes dead(ly) as intensifiers modifying adjectives from BYU-BNC, COCA, and BNCweb. The results of this study show that the intensifier deadly still suggests the original meaning of “death” in late 20th century in British English and early 21st century in American English. This study also shows that American and British English differ in the use of the intensifiers dead(ly) and that the intensifier deadly seems to disappear in English in the near future.

Yu, Kyong-Ae. 2015. A Corpus-Based Study on Intensifiers Dead and Deadly Modifying Adjectives. Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics 15-2, 181-202. According to Donnor (1991), -ly adverbs derived from adjectives generally have more figurative and abstract meanings than the flat modal adverbs without the suffix in dual-form adverbs in Middle English. The intensifier deadly, however, can be related to its original meaning of “death” in English. In Blanco-Suárez (2013), the intensifiers dead and deadly from late 15th to early 20th century, which underwent a process of grammaticalization and subjectification, could suggest “death”or the meaning of “as if dead.” In order to diachronically and synchronically compare the meanings of intensifiers dead(ly), this study analyzes dead(ly) as intensifiers modifying adjectives from BYU-BNC, COCA, and BNCweb. The results of this study show that the intensifier deadly still suggests the original meaning of “death” in late 20th century in British English and early 21st century in American English. This study also shows that American and British English differ in the use of the intensifiers dead(ly) and that the intensifier deadly seems to disappear in English in the near future.