국어 말뭉치에서의 ‘덥다’와 ‘뜨겁다’의 의미와 용법의 비교 연구

Abstract

This research attempts to explore and compare the uses and meanings of the adjectives tepta and ttukepta 'hot', two of the temperature-denoting words, through an examination of a Korean written corpus. This research first examines the frequency of tepta and ttukepta, showing that ttukepta is far more frequently used than tepta in the database. Second, it examines the frequency of grammatical functions of tepta and ttukepta, showing that the frequency of ttekepta is much higher in the attributive usage. Third, this study shows that tepta is used to show highness of temperature in weather in most cases, but ttukepta is used to denote not only high temperature in weather but also strong, energetic emotional responses when it co-occurs with action/ activity words or abstract nouns. Fourth, this research explores co-occurrence patterns of the two adjectives, showing that most of the tepta examples are used to modify or predicate weather-related nouns while ttukepta co-occurs with nouns of diverse semantic categories of concrete objects and abstract entities.