This study examines the similarities and differences in the forms, meanings, and functions of the Japanese term “mae” (まえ) and the Korean terms “ap” and “jeon” through a contrastive analysis based on corpus data. Although several previous studies have investigated the meanings and functions of “mae”, there has been little systematic research comparing it with the Korean expressions “ap” and “jeon”. The goal of this paper is to provide the systematic and comparative analysis of the forms, meanings, and functions of the above three expressions. The results of the analysis are as follows. First, “mae” expresses three meanings: spatial, causal, and temporal. In its spatial usage, object nouns, human nouns, and place nouns occur as preceding nouns, accompanied by various cases and corresponding predicate types. In contrast, in the causal and temporal usages, abstract nouns and time nouns or action nouns serve as preceding nouns, and their use is largely restricted to ni case. Second, “ap” primarily expresses spatial and causal meanings, while only a single example of temporal usage was found in the corpus. Its causal usage is restricted to the cases -e and –eseo. Third, “jeon” expresses only a temporal meaning and is limited to the cases -e, -buteo, and -kkaji. These findings show that the Japanese expression “mae” covers spatial, causal, and temporal meanings within a single form, whereas in Korean, the expressions “ap” and “jeon” are separately divided to have different semantic functions. This contrast clearly demonstrates both the similarities and the differences in the semantic and functional systems of the two languages.
한국일본언어문화학회 [Japanese Language & Culture Association of Korea]
설립연도
2001
분야
인문학>일본어와문학
소개
본 학회는 일본어학 및 일본문학은 물론, 일본의 정치, 경제, 문화, 사회 등의 일본학 전반에 걸친 연구 및 일본의 언어, 문화를 매체로 한 한국과의 비교 연구를 대상으로 하고 있다. 본 학회는 회원들에게 연구 발표 및 정보 교환의 기회를 부여하고 나아가 한국에서의 바람직한 일본 연구 자세를 확립하는 것을 주된 목표로 하고 있다.