Aspects of -ki Nominalization in Korean
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Michael Barrie; Heeryun Chung
- Source
- 언어와 언어학 / Language and Linguistics. Feb 28, 2019 83:1
- Subject
- nominalization
Korean
Case marking
noun incorporation
tense in nominals
- Language
- Korean
- ISSN
- 1225-4967
This paper analyzes -ki nominalizations in Korean. We identify two types of the -ki nominalizations, NOM-ki and GEN-ki, with distinct morphosyntactic properties. We propose an analysis along the lines of Kratzer (1996) in which the nominalizer -ki selects verbal projections of different sizes (TP and vP) to account for the observed patterns. We argue against previous accounts of -ki nominalizations, showing either that important generalizations were missed or that there were flaws in the previous analyses. We propose a novel generalization for the two types of -ki nominalizations and propose an appropriate analysis. Some outstanding issues and implications are briefly discussed.