'색'과 '빛' 계열 합성 명사의 형태·의미론적 고찰

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate into some properties of color compound words in Korean. Especially our research will be focused upon the types of -색 construction and -빛construction. There are some subtle differences between these two types of color compound words in the aspects of morphology and semantics. For a start, we can find out that many color compound nouns contain 색or 빛 as the second root in the process of word formation. Therefore we intensively argue these types of words. At second, we observe what are common properties and differences between 색and 빛in some dictionaries. Through this observation, we verify the root 색directly represents the typical conception of color, on the contrary the root 빛, even though it is related to the conception of color, indirectly has relevance with it. 빛will be find out to be insufficiently direct than 색in the aspect of color. At third, we tentatively present some lists of the color compound words which have 색and 빛from corpus. And then for a detailed description about the characteristics of 색or 빛, we inspect diverse morphological and semantic properties of first roots which proceed second roots 색or 빛