Case Morphemes in Korean: Their Morphosyntactic Implications

• 영문명: Case Morphemes in Korean: Their Morphosyntactic Implications
• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: 최영식
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제119호, 63~86쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.09.25

영문 초록

I will show that nominal expressions with a structural case morpheme in Korean have syntactic and morphological properties distinct from those with a semantic case morpheme as adduced in constructions involving floated quantifier, case drop on the clefts, binding condition C and Weak crossover. I claim that structural case morphemes are affixes, whereas semantic case morphemes are clitics, namely, syntactically independent words that belong to the syntactic category of postposition. It follows that nominal expressions with a semantic case morpheme are PPs whereas those with a structural case morpheme are NPs. The present thesis crucially diverges from Cho and Sells (1995), according to which case morphemes are affixes in Korean across the board, there being no independently identifiable category of postposition. I will discuss potential argument against the present proposal involving so-called genitive case marking construction in Korean, which, however, turns out to support the present thesis.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Structural Case vs. Semantic Case

3. Potential Argument against the Present Proposal: Genitive Case Marking

4. Conclusion and Theoretical Implication

References

키워드

affix clitic semantic case postposition