국어 통합합성어 형성 원리 연구 -신어 분석을 기반으로- = A Study on the Formation of Synthetic Compounds in Corean

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper argues that synthetic compounds in Korean are formed in the syntax, following the approach of the Distributed Morphology. Synthetic compounds are derived in the syntax like their syntactic counterparts. What they differ depends on the merge site of a nominalizing functional category. The nominalizing functional category merges with a root phrase in the case of synthetic compounds whereas it takes a vP in syntactic counterparts. This approach can explain not only existing synthetic compounds but newly coined ones in Korean. Synthetic compounds in Korean exhibit certain syntactic relationships between their preceding noun constituents and the verbal roots. That is, the preceding noun constituents are internal arguments or adjuncts of the verbal roots, but cannot be external arguments. This can be explained by the analysis that a noun constituent and its verbal root of a synthetic compound constitute one root phrase before the merge of the nominalizing functional category, thereby excluding an external argument inside it.