Gil-Am Nam
Yonsei University · Arts and Humanities
About the Lab
Professor Gil-Am Nam's research lab specializes in corpus-based and computational linguistics, focusing on the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic analysis of Korean linguistic phenomena. The lab investigates morphosyntactic constructions such as 'ida' and '-l yejeongida' types, explores the motivations behind word-formation and neologism creation in digital and social media, and examines the functional use of negation across spoken, written, and online registers. A central theme is the integration of corpus data with linguistic theory to uncover native speakers' linguistic intuition and usage patterns in authentic language use.
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15이 연구는 특히 형태적 측면에서 동사와 형용사 모두로 활용하는 부류를 임시적으로 ‘활용 양용 용언’이라고 하고, 말뭉치 용례의 계량적 분석과 형태·통사적 분석을 통하여, 이러한 용언들의 특이한 활용 양상을 분석하고 분류하여 양용 활용의 원인을 파악한 것이다. 개별 용언의 ‘활용’ 형태의 선택은 그 어휘를 사용하는 화자의 언어 의식을 반영한다는 기본 전제 하에, 이 연구에서는 연구 대상을 실제 언어 사용 양상을 그대로 담은 말뭉치, 그 중에서도 교과서나 규범적인 텍스트가 아닌 소설 말뭉치로 삼았다. 말뭉치의 용례 분석을 기반으로 하여, 이 연구는 활용 현상이 동사의 어떤 의미적 특성과 어떤 관련을 가지고 있는지, 화자의 언어 직관이 활용 형태 선택에 어떻게 관여하는지를 밝히고자 하였다. 연구 결과, 양용 용언류의 활용형 선택은 화자가 용언의 의미 그 중에서도 용언의 상적인 의미를 어떻게 파악하고 있는가와 관련을 가지며, 부가적으로 화자 및 주어의 사건에 대한 주, 객관적 판단이 관련이
A Study on 'Ida' Constructions asModality Constructions
This study proposes a new methodology for morpheme-based analysis designed to identify multi-word patterns in Korean, which is a typical example of agglutinative languages. The need for a new approach in corpus linguistics, which takes language typological characteristics into consideration, is also a crucial point of this paper. In Korean, functional words like prepositions or conjunctions arerealized as bound morphemes (emi or cosa) that function as ‘minimal grammatical units’. When formulaic
Nam, Kil-im. 2004.2. A Study on the ‘-l yejeongida’ constructions. Korean Linguistics 22, 69 94. The purpose of this study is to examine ‘-n/l noun+ida’ constructions based on corpus, and to identify its syntactic-semantic characteristics. In this study, the ‘-n/l noun+ida’ constructions are defined as ‘-l yejeongida’ type.In the pre-study, which referred to ‘ida’, the ‘-l yejeongida’ type constructions are mostly excluded since these are considered as non-typical type of the ‘ida’ construction;
This paper reports on the Korean Neologism Investigation Project and discusses a number of issues related to neologism research. Since 1994, when the government of South Korea initiated the project, the use of the Internet and mobile phones has increased exponentially and the methods and scope of the investigation into Korean neologisms have been modified accordingly. This project consists of collecting all the neologisms that appear each year in news articles on the Naver portal using a Web-bas
The objective of this study is twofold. First, it aims to investigate the extent to which Korean negation is used in written, spoken corpus and online product review corpus by contrast of affirmation. Second, it examines the co-relationship between the meta-function of negation and communicative purpose of each register. There have been few quantitative studies of Korean negation even though many studies have been performed from the perspective of syntax and semantics. This study analyses Korean
This volume of Lexicography: Journal of ASIALEX is a special issue featuring four selected papers presented at the 16th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX, 2023), held in June 2023 in Seoul, South Korea.
The emergence and spread of Korean COVID-19 neologisms in news articles and user comments and their lexicographic description 1 Introduction COVID-19-related new words have been coined extensively since December 2019, reflecting linguistic response to a social reality and indicating the dynamics of new words to cope with unprecedented pandemic situations. From an internal linguistic perspective, COVID-19 neologisms are first of all a set of new words which are focused on a specific period and a
This paper discusses issues regarding frequency as a criterion for Korean neologism extraction from the perspective of corpus linguistics and lexicography. Most studies agree that frequency plays a central role in the inclusion of neologisms in the dictionary; however, frequency entails a number of complex factors such as the time span of a word’s use as well as the variety of registers. The use of web data to extract neologisms – instead of a balanced corpus – has brought about a new range of i
This study explores the potential application of large language models (LLMs) in Korean neologism extraction and dictionary compilation while critically examining the limitations of existing methods, including the bias toward news-oriented data and morphological neologisms. By analysing data from news corpora alongside messenger and online post corpora, the study identifies significant limitations in current news-centred approaches, particularly in detecting the first occurrences and extracting
This study aims to define sentiment expressions from the perspective of Korean linguistics and present the research process for extracting sentiment expressions in Korean product reviews. For the purpose of this study, an 8 million word clothing corpus was built; this was composed of product reviews, online magazines and professional fashion blogs, which have been morphologically annotated. Chapter 2 presents the corpus-driven methodology adopted for the research process, which focuses on n-gram
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