The purpose of this study is to investigate on the adverbs co-occurred with the negative expressions in the corpus. It is necessary for some adverbs to co-occur with the negative expression in Korean. These adverbs have different combination constrai ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate on the adverbs co-occurred with the negative expressions in the corpus. It is necessary for some adverbs to co-occur with the negative expression in Korean. These adverbs have different combination constraints with the negative expressions. Firstly, I analyzed the frequency in use of the adverb co-occurred with the negative expressions in the corpus. Adverbs such as ‘전혀, 결코, 별로’ are appeared the most frequently. Otherwise these adverbs have different combinations with the negative expressions. I analyzed the combination constraints of the adverb and the negative expression concretely, based on the language corpus. And I will also test the possibility of the application of my findings to the Korean Language Education. I proposed that we need to teach the korean adverbs co-occured with the negative expressions, in the order of frequency in use. My proposal runs as follows.

step 1: 전혀, 결코, 별로, 그리, (frequency count - 1000 over)
step 2: 도대체, 도저히, 절대, 그다지, 절대로 (frequency count - 500 up to 1000)
step 3: 도무지, 채, 미처, 좀처럼, 여간, 영, 비단, 차마, 전연, 통, 구태여 (frequency count - 100 up to 500)
step 4: 이루, 도통, 과히, 좀체, 별반, 일절, 도시, 딱히, 당최, 이만저만, 결단코, 별달리, 지지리, 별양, 바이 (frequency count - 100 downward)

I expect that the results of this study might be applied to the Korean Language Education for foreigners, the description of Korean dictionary, and NLP(natural language process) etc.