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Chapter 15 - Lexical Nominalizations in Korean

from Part III - Morphology and Syntax

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2022

By
James Hye Suk Yoon
Edited by
Sungdai Cho  and
John Whitman
Sungdai Cho
Affiliation:
Binghamton University, State University of New York
John Whitman
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

Chapter 15 investigates the feasibility of an all-syntax approach to lexical nominalizations in Korean. In addition to productive syntactic nominalizations, Korean possesses a rich inventory of deverbal, i.e., lexical, nominalizations. The consensus in the field since the advent of the Lexicalist Hypothesis (Chomsky 1970) that syntactic and lexical nominalizations are formed in different grammatical components has been questioned in recent approaches that advocate a unified syntactic analysis of all nominalizations. The investigation reveals that while there are lexical nominalizations that are argument-bearing, previous arguments purporting to support separation of complex event nominals and simple event, or result, nominals, ultimately do not go through in Korean. Examination of a class of lexical nominalizations that bear some hallmarks of syntactic derivation leads to the same conclusion. Thus, deverbal lexical nominalizations in Korean do not support the kind of unified syntactic analysis of nominalizations that is currently dominant in the literature.

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syntactic nominalizationslexical nominalizationscomplex event nominalscomplex event diagnosticsnominalizer uniformityhead movement/incorporationreanalysis
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The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics , pp. 429 - 457
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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