The purpose of this study is to describe the category of grammatical function of bound noun in late middle Korean chiefly on the morphological construction and syntactical construction synchronically.
Main discussion in this reasearch is based on the...
The purpose of this study is to describe the category of grammatical function of bound noun in late middle Korean chiefly on the morphological construction and syntactical construction synchronically.
Main discussion in this reasearch is based on the morphological construction prior to the syntactical construction which performs grammatical function to generate Np phrase and ADV phrase. In this respect, I am going to take a research methodology which use syntactic and associate relation as criteria of linguistic form on grammatical function.
The research value on this study is to disclose the agglutinate nature of middle korean by enlightening morphological construction of bound noun synchronically.
Through such research a process, we can arrive at grammatical system of bound noun in late middle korean. Speaking the essential point comprehensively, I suggest that its content is as follows:
(1) Formation of Inflection Category
The mechanism of inflection category with regard to the morphological construction of bound noun consists of some factors; grammaticalisation, juncture, constitutional transition and amalgamation.
To examine the construction of distribution which take part in the formation of inflectional category, I believe that the most important type of syntactical distribution is 5th pattern <05>, [V_st +[(E_pre)+ [D+N_b] +(E_f)]_ve ] VP.
In case of embedded sentence, verbal ending [-1] line is very comprehensive. It is remarkable for hound noun to take part in morphological construction comparing with syntactic construction. Moreover morphemes of bound noun which performs morphological construction have agglutinate declension ending. Only this point is different from Indoeuropean language. Meanwhile, according to the grammatical function of bound noun, semi-inflectional category in declension ending shows that it has general type in distribution such as [N+ [N_b+(Ndeel)] NP(ADV)]. In a word, this semiinflectional ending," perform grammaticality as the case of NP. On the aspect of morphological construction, the tractive, morpheme of bound noun is 「-i(이)」.
(2) Generation of compound word
Compound words which bound noun form due to their morphological combining structure are classified into syntatic and asyntatic compound words. Theoretical bases of compound word have some factors; close juncture, suffixation, zero-morphem conversion, reduplication, transition of seme and transition of endo-centric construction. Especially suffixations are classified into syntactic and lexical type. The former is comprehensive in the wordformation, the latter is often used as mechanism of ADV formation.
In the syntactic compound word, the formation of noun and pronoun is frequent remarkably. Their formation rule [V_st+N_b]N occupies an important grammatical position. Meanwhile asyntactic compound words take a majority in distribution of adverb and verb. At this time, zero-morpheme conversion mechanism is obligatorily.
(3) Formation of a part of speech as NP
Compared with morphological construction, syntactic construction plays a role as Np or ADV. In case of Np, it’s formative machanims have some factors; lexical transition in sememe, open juncture, syntactic constraints. In a view point of grammatical feature, general bound noun has the feature [+Np Complementation], while quantitative bound noun has the syntactic feature [+quantitatve syntax formation]. The former has distributional type the 1st pattern<OI>, the latter shows that 4th pattern<04>.
At any rate, bound noun has a role as head noun which take part in the syntactic formation of main sentence and embedded sentence. A family line in etymology of bound noun has distinctive position in proper word described by korean letter.
(4) Formation of a part of speech as ADV phrase
Theoretical back grounds of ADV formation have some factors; sememe and immediate constuction’s transition, open juncture and agglutinate constraints of declension ending factor. The former three factors are obligatorily, the Latter one factor optional.
Through the feature of syntactical side, bound noun which take part in the formation of ADV has property as [+VP complementation]. In the embedded sentence, verbal ending [-n] is comprehensive. Besides the constraints of verb in main sentence are open nearly.
Above-mentioned discussion will be developed more and more explicitly as the research of syntactic and morphological construction on bound noun will be performed further diachronically as possible as we can.