The Relationship between Semantic Bleaching and Syntax: A Case from Bound Noun cwung in Korean

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Kim, Tae Sik. 2017. The Relationship between Semantic Bleaching and Syntax: A Case from Bound Noun cwung in Korean. Studies in Generative Grammar, 27-3, 565-589. This paper focuses on bound nouns in Korean and argues that there is a relationship between Semantic Bleaching and Syntactic notions such as c-command and dominance. Bound nouns in Korean need an aid of other words. In the case of the bound noun kes, the aid should be by lexical words, but not functional ones such as numerals and classifiers (Kim 2016a). However, the bound noun man and tongan allow the help of numerals and classifiers (Kim 2017a, 2017b).
The bound noun cwung also needs the aid of numerals and classifiers, but the modification pattern of it is different: the bound noun cwung should be c-commanded or dominated by nP. I claim that the existence or non-existence of the nP restriction is related to the degree of semantic bleached-ness of bound nouns, and the bound noun cwung is less grammaticalized than the bound noun man and tongan.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The bound noun kes (Kim 2011, 2016a)
• 3. The bound noun man (Kim 2017a, 2017b)
• 4. The bound noun tongan (Kim 2017b)
• 5. Interim Summary
• 6. The bound noun cwung
• 7. Discussion
• 8. Conclusion