{"title":"The well-formed condition for Korean noun incorporation","authors":"Man-Seob Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.pscr.2014.08.019","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, I aim to discuss the Korean noun incorporation phenomenon. I demonstrate that Korean noun incorporation occurs at the D-structure, syntactically obeying the Head Movement Constraint (HMC) of Travis <span>[14]</span> and Chomsky<span>[7]</span> and Baker <span>[6]</span> and semantically obeying the Theme-Only Constraint (TOC). For the discussion, I first identify the structure of ‘hæ-tot-i’ sunrise-type words, thereby showing that before derivation occurs by adding the nominalizing affix ‘-i’, compounding ‘hæ’ sun and ‘tot-’ to rise should first occur syntactically. Based on empirical data, this argument is strong enough to convince us that noun incorporation is a syntactic word formation process. Based on the syntactic structure of the noun incorporation identified, I show that every noun that goes through syntactic noun incorporation should have the thematic role of ‘theme’, which has been captured as the Theme-Only Constraint. Thus, the syntactic HMC and semantic TOC form a general well-formed condition to effect optimal noun incorporation in Korean.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100998,"journal":{"name":"Pacific Science Review","volume":"16 2","pages":"Pages 89-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.pscr.2014.08.019","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Pacific Science Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1229545014000205","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In this paper, I aim to discuss the Korean noun incorporation phenomenon. I demonstrate that Korean noun incorporation occurs at the D-structure, syntactically obeying the Head Movement Constraint (HMC) of Travis [14] and Chomsky[7] and Baker [6] and semantically obeying the Theme-Only Constraint (TOC). For the discussion, I first identify the structure of ‘hæ-tot-i’ sunrise-type words, thereby showing that before derivation occurs by adding the nominalizing affix ‘-i’, compounding ‘hæ’ sun and ‘tot-’ to rise should first occur syntactically. Based on empirical data, this argument is strong enough to convince us that noun incorporation is a syntactic word formation process. Based on the syntactic structure of the noun incorporation identified, I show that every noun that goes through syntactic noun incorporation should have the thematic role of ‘theme’, which has been captured as the Theme-Only Constraint. Thus, the syntactic HMC and semantic TOC form a general well-formed condition to effect optimal noun incorporation in Korean.