Abstract This study attempts to investigate the syntactic and semantic properties of the verb ‘na-da’ in its use as a support verb. ‘na-da’ has its own lexical meaning ‘birth(生)’ and ‘going/coming out(出)’ which arise from its pr... Abstract This study attempts to investigate the syntactic and semantic properties of the verb ‘na-da’ in its use as a support verb. ‘na-da’ has its own lexical meaning ‘birth(生)’ and ‘going/coming out(出)’ which arise from its prototypical meaning of ‘IN→OUT.’ Unlike its usages in the Middle Korean, however, it frequently combines with predicative nouns and is used as a support verb more often than as a main verb in contemporary Korean language. This study pays particular attention to how the degree of predication and lexical meaning of the following noun affects the syntactic and semantic properties of ‘na-da’ construction in which ‘na-da’ combines with a predicative noun. Chapter 2 presents the properties of ‘na-da’ as a support verb in order to establish the common theoretical ground for further discussions in the following chapters. It starts with problematizing the current syntactic status of ‘na-da,’ because its syntactic status has been at least ambivalent, if not ill-defined. Then it examines the property changes in preceding nouns when they combine with the verb ‘na-da’ through diachronic data analyses. It defines the prototypical meaning of ‘na-da’ as ‘IN→OUT’ and investigates the relationship between the grammaticalization and the actualization of its lexical meaning in terms of the degree of predication of the preceding noun. In Chapter 3, the predicative properties of 300 nouns that combine with ‘na-da’ are analyzed and categorized according to their degree of predication. Depending on their lexical properties, preceding nouns of ‘na-da’ fall under one of the seven categories: entity, attribute value, phenomenon, event, diseases and/or symptoms, feelings and/or cognition, and action. Chapter 3 analyzes the predicative properties of these nouns according to the following criteria: 1) the existence of lexical aspectual properties, 2) argument assignment, and 3) the possibility of combining with an event classifier. It then quantitatively visualizes their degree of predication. What is addressed in Chapter 3 becomes the theoretical grounds for later discussions in Chapter 4, which explains the relationship between the degree of predication of the preceding noun and the syntactic and semantic properties of the ‘na-da’ construction. Chapter 4 explores the correlation between the degree of predication of the preceding noun and the syntactic and semantic properties of ‘na-da’ construction from four different aspects. First, the corpus data analysis shows that the degree of predication of the preceding noun is related to the syntactic distance between ‘na-da’ and its preceding noun. When ‘na-da’ combines with nouns with low degree of predication, the probability that a postposition is inserted is very high of 91.4%. On the other hand, when it combines with nouns with high degree of predication, the probability of postposition insertion remains at relatively low 65.6%. Therefore, one can conclude that the syntactic distance between ‘na-da’ and its preceding noun decreases when the preceding noun exhibits higher degree of predication. Second, the degree of predication of the preceding noun is also related to the lexical meaning of ‘na-da.’ The comparative analysis of the verb ‘na-da’ and its antonym ‘deul-da’ reveals that the lexicality of ‘na-da’ weakens as the degree of predication of the preceding noun increases. Third, the degree of predication of the preceding noun exhibits a certain level of correlation with the argument structure in ‘noun / na-da’ construction. As the degree of predication of the preceding noun increases, the argument structure of ‘na-da’ construction tends to rely more heavily on that of its preceding noun instead of maintaining its own argument structure, thus increasing the diversity of the type of argument structure of the construction. Lastly, the degree of predication of the preceding noun is also related to the change of semantic role of the argument the ‘na-da’ construction demands. When the degree of predication of the preceding noun increases, the semantic role of the given argument changes from ‘inanimate’ to ‘animate’; the semantic role of the subject argument also changes from ‘theme’ to ‘experiencer.’ Then follows the examination of the argument structure of ‘na-da’ as a support verb. Chapter 5 first clarifies its theoretical position to view the ‘na-da’ support verb construction as the construction where ‘na-da’ combines with predicative nouns. It then organizes the argument structure of ‘na-da’ support verb construction according to the semantic role of subject. The sematic role of subject in ‘na-da’ support verb construction quite clearly falls into either one of the two categories: theme and experiencer. Chapter 5 suggests the argument structure for each category and describes their characteristics. The chapter closes with the presentation of the type of argument structure of ‘na-da’ support verb construction. This dissertation attempts to address the syntactic and semantic properties of support verb construction in general by looking into the ‘na-da’ construction in which the verb is used as a support verb - the verb ‘na-da’ exhibits a certain level of lexical meaning compared to other dummy verbs. By introducing the concept of degree of predication in its analyses, it hopes to present a new methodological approach to the support verb construction studies in general and wishes to contribute to other studies on the support verb constructions in Korean language, which have mainly focused on dummy verbs such as ‘ida’ or ‘hada.’ key word : support verb, predicative noun, degree of predication, aspectual properties, argument assignment, semantic role. ，韩语论文范文，韩语毕业论文 |
