한글맞춤법의 원리 －총칙 제1항의 의미 해석을 중심으로－

This study attempts an interpretation of the meaning of two main ideas or rules of <한글맞춤법(Korean Orthography)>. Those two ideas are “following the sound” and “according to the word-rule”. I maintain that these two function together and are used to represent actual spellings in the Korean script. “Scripting following the sound” is not to write in a transcriptional manner but to spell according to the actual pronunciation that words or phrases possess. “Scripting according to the word- rule” is not to write the each part of the complex words respectively without any consideration of other conditions. In order to spell each constituent of complex words separately, two conditions should be satisfied. The one condition is the semantic relation between the roots or bases, and the other condition is the productivity of the suffixes or endings. When one of these two conditions are not met, we cannot write the constituents separately. ‘The sound’ has priority over ‘the word-rule’. So spelling against the sound is not acceptable, although it keeps the word-rule.