한국어의 후치 요소와 명사 확장 범주

• 영문명: Postpositional Elements and Nominal Extended Projections in Korean
• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: 홍용철
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제18권 제4호, 743~768쪽, 전체 26쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2008.11.30

영문 초록

In the first part of this paper, assuming, with Yoon (2005), that category-neural elements like man (only), i.e. delimiters, are invisible with regard to syntactic structure building, we claim that the nominal affixes except delimiters appearing between a number affix and a Case marker form a syntactic category, which we call postpositional element (PE). The reasons are as follows. First, they scope over coordinated NPs, which suggests that they constitute a syntactic object. Second, they appear in a fixed position among nominal affixes in the order of N-Num-PE-K. Third, they have syntactic and semantic functions such as inherent or semantic case marking and categorial selection. In addition, certain complexes such as an-ey (in) (which is composed of a noun + a postpositional element), wiha-ye (for) (which is composed of a verb + a verbal particle) or kath-i (like) (which is composed of an adjective +an adjectival particle), must not be considered as a postpositional element because the noun, the verb, and the adjective in these complexes, show their nominal, verbal or adjectival properties. Therefore postpositional elements in Korean have to be restricted to the nominal affixes appearing between a number affix and a Case marker. In the second part, we observe the following three characteristics of postpositional elements, thereby showing that they are different from those of prepositions in other languages such as English or French. First, a demonstrative phrase like yeki i (here this) can scope over a postpositional element phrase (PEP). Second, structural Case markers can appear after a postpositional element. Third, syntactic or semantic features of a noun whose projection NP is a complement of PE, percolate through the PEP. Finally, we show that all these characteristics can be accounted for by Hong's (2006) hypothesis that PEP in Korean is a nominal extended projection à la Grimshaw (1991).

키워드

postpositional element in Korean scope of postpositional element fixed position of postpositional element PEP as a nominal extended projection transparency of PEP postpositional element and Case marker