초록 열기/닫기 버튼
This paper aims to demonstrate the validity of establishing Function Unit in Sino-Korean through diverse phenomena and consider the related issues. There are two kinds of grammar, where one is two-character grammar, and the other is three-character grammar. While three-character grammar is based on Function Unit, the reality of Function Unit can be verified through overlapping synonymous words and some phonological phenomena such as liquidization and glottalization, initial sound law. Especially the liquidization difference between 권력(勸力)[궐력] and 공권력(公權力)[공권녁] means the necessity of establishing Function Unit which is different from a morpheme boundary. And the fact that the first initial law applies to examples such as 재논의(再論議), 남존여비(男尊女卑), the glottalization difference which is found in suffixal 성(性), 병(病) point to the same direction. 성(性), 병(病) are not glottalized in forming two-character words such as 감성(感性), 간병(看病), but are glottalized in forming three-character words such as 타당성(妥當性), 광견병(狂犬病). When it combines with one syllable words, the glottalization occurs only if the words are Function Unit. So 당성(黨性), 폐병(肺病) shows a glottalization as expected. Likewise two kinds of 자(者) are identified according to whether it is combined through three-character grammar(ex: 철학자[哲學者]) or two-character grammar(ex: 학자[學者]). These are different with respect to its distribution and frequency, the lexical strength of preceding bases.
