earticle

영어

In this paper, we conducted a comparative analysis on the adverbial usage of mimetic words about hardness which represent tactile sense between Korean and Japanese. In the function of onomatopoeia mimetic words in both languages, adverbial functions are the main functions, so we study their classification of the adverbial usage, the difference of each usage between two languages. In Japanese, there are three functions : TO type, NI type, and without anything, and four functions : base, -hake type, -hi type, -i type in Korean. As a result, the most commonly used function is TO type in Japanese, and –hi type in Korean, but this is concentrated on specific vocabulary (mimetic word requiring ). The most frequently used function overall is –hake type. It is found that Japanese mimetic words of hardness have the nature of nouns and adjectives, and can be changed to verbs by conjunction with . From this point, the change of the part is one of the big characteristic of the mimetic words in Japanese. Among the mimetic words of hardness in Korean, there are not so many words which function as adverbs themselves(ex.calgis, kkongkkong, koseul, kodeul). Mainly they function as adverbs with . This is one of the characteristic of Korean mimetic word of hardness. As the common points of Korean and Japanese mimetic words, they can be changed to another parts, especially to nouns and adjectives. and play a big role for such a change of parts. But their functions are not the same. can change the mimetic words to adjectives and verbs, but cannot be a adjective.