부정 요소‘안’과 용언의 결합 제약에 대한 통계적 분석

Abstract

Korean Journal of Linguistics, 39-1, 1-25. Korean has two forms (elements) of negation: a short form ('an') and a long form ('ahda'). Among the two forms, the short form shows some restrictions on combination with a verb/adjective. Although there have been several anecdotal suggestions on the restrictions, a thorough study based on the availability of the short form 'an' with verbs/adjectives is still in need. This paper tries to analyze the restrictions of negative forms (with respect to the relevant verbs/adjectives) in statistical methods, on the basis of a corpus of 15 millions words (the Sejong Korean Corpus). By logistic regression analysis, five factors―word origin (Korean proper, Chinese), syllable length, part of speech (verb, adjective), '-ha' verb or not, and frequency of use― all turn out to be significant, in that order. We also consider diachronic facts and discuss the findings from the viewpoint of Cognitive Linguistics, a usage-based theory.