A Comparative Study Of English And Korean Compound Adjectives

Two or more root morphemes are combined to constitute compounds in accordance with certain rules. Compound adjectives belong to sub-categor ies of compounds, which compose the three major forms with compound nouns and compound verbs. Compound adjectives are made of two or more components which are combined to produce new words in accordance with combination rules of compounds, which have qualities and functions of adjectives. English and Korean belong to inflectional and agglunative language respect tively and morphological structure and word-formation of English and Korean compound adjectives are heavy and complicated. Therefore, it assum es a great difference on the structural relations and semantic structures of components of English and Korean compound adjectives. This paper will find out linguistic universal rules and differences of compound adjectives by classifying and generalizing English and Korean compound adjectives. Also, it is expected to reveal the substantive characteristics of compound adjectives which help foreign language learners to master and use compound adjectives properly.This paper contrasts from three main headings. Chapter three observes the features of morphological formation of English and Korean compound adjectives to center around the collocation of parts of speech. English and Korean compound adjectives both have characteristics to center around adjectives and verbs. Furthermore, English have compound adjectives to center around nouns and some compound adjectives come from prepositional phrase and phrasal verb. Chapter four is divided into two parts. First, it compares the structural relations and semantic relationship of the former and latter part within words. The major structural relations in common between two languages are subject-predicate structure, coordinate structure and adverbial-head structure and verb-object. Afterwards, it compares the semantic relationship between the entire sense and component sense of English and Korean compound adjectives. It is divided into seven models, among which 5 models are the same type. Finally, it summarizes the similarities and differences of morphological formation, structural relations and semantic relations of English and Korean compound adjectives.