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Kang, Beom-mo. 2011. Semantic Prosodies of Adjective and Nouns. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 36-1, 1-23. This paper is intended to introduce, discuss, and apply the concept of ‘semantic prosody’, which has been extensively discussed in current corpus linguistics research. Semantic prosodies are positive and negative, connotational, evaluative meaning flavors over words, phrases, clauses and sentences. We collect data of semantic prosodies with respect to Korean adjectives and nouns on the basis of (extended) Sejong Morph-Analysis Corpus, a 15 million-word Korean words morphologically analyzed. Each of the adjectives appearing in the corpus is assigned positive/negative/neutral prosody (by three experts). After showing the general properties of semantic prosodies over Korean adjectives, we consider Adj + Noun (modification) constructions and describe aspects of combinations of positive/negative adjectives and nouns along with the resulting prosodies. (Korea University)