Through collecting some basic dialects in Im-sil district, we are going to find their characteristics in phonology, syntax, and lexicography. We've collected and investigated about 720 lexical items.
The investigation method we adopted is the direct ...
Through collecting some basic dialects in Im-sil district, we are going to find their characteristics in phonology, syntax, and lexicography. We've collected and investigated about 720 lexical items.
The investigation method we adopted is the direct question & answer between investigators and informants. Our informants' average age is over sixty, and they have lived there all their lives.
The results are as follows;
1. Phonology.
A. Their phonological system is found to be almost similar to that of central dialects. We can confirm their vowel system is composed of ten vowels, distinguishing /e/ from /ε/. This phenomenon is different from our common knowledge about it.
B. Every single vowel alternates actively in all the vowels. The alternative phenomena between /e/ and /ε/ occur in accordance with back vowel and umlaut respectively.
C. Their umlaut phenomena are extensive and similar to those of both central and kyoung-sang dialects.
D. Diphthongs with consonant in the initial syllable usually alternates with single vowel.
E. We find their palatalization more various than that of central dialects. This phenomena are sure to occur when the condition is given in the first and second syllable.
F. Glottalized phenomenon is more productive than aspirated phenomenon.
Ⅱ. Syntax.
A. The form" -(h??) d??e" is the predicate of matrix sentence which dominates the complementrary structure.
B. The form "-jad??i" has a [+Active] as syntactic property while the forms "-d??i" and "d??e" don't
C. The forms "a/??rau" and "-d??irau" can be integrated with the form "-ja d??i" but can't be integrated with the form "(h??) d??e" naturally.
D. The form "-d??i" is pronounced with rising intonation and assumed to be tag-question usage for the moment.
D. While the form "-d??i" with explanatory final ending is used as a Korean general form as a converbum, the form "-jad??e" isn't.
F. The purpose of this paper is to point out the general fallacy of classifying the form "-had??i" and "-had??e" as a traditional distinctive features of dialect form (allomorph) in Im-sil dialect, when collecting data of dialect syntax with a special criteria.
Ⅲ. Lexicology.
Aiming to establish lexical system of subdialect, lexical category is limited within a scope of semantic method and posture. We investigate it with pure and unconfused semantic approach. We describe them synchronically; the meanings of Im-sil dialects based on informents' detailed expressions. We contrast them with standard language. Any particular expression, if necessary, is selectively accounted in the main body.