Lim-hwa Hwang. 2011. Semantic Analysis and Semantic Relations of a Noun ‘Badak.’ Language Information . Volume 12. 149-176.
The purpose of this study is to analyze semantic relations of semes of 'Badak', a noun with a meaning 'below'. In this paper, 'Badak' is set into 12 semes that revert to semantic features and are redescribed. Through these features, the lexicon(words) related to 'Badak' has been examined on the relations of antonymy, synonymy, hypernymy and hyponymy. 'Badak' has the antonymy relation with 'ceiling, cap, upper limit price, land' etc. and has the synonymy relation with 'base line, the very bottom, the lowest price (lower limit Price), a flat, the lower class, texture, base (bottom)' etc.; 'Badak' has the hypernymy relation with 'below, price, interior, space' etc. and has the hyponymy relation with 'floor, ground, palm' etc. Through this study, it can be verified that there are different semantic relations among each single meaning(monosemy) of a multivocal morpheme. Meanwhile, these results will be available for teaching foreign students as vocabulary items in the Korean language education. (Department of Korean Language & Literature, Korea University)
Key words: Badak, antonymy, synonymy, hypernymy, hyponymy