Reducing the Many Uses of -E into One: A Morphological Closer

• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Duk-Ho An
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제31권 제2호, 309~328쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2021.05.30

영문 초록

In this squib, I examine the distribution of the ending –e in Korean, which shows up in a number of heterogeneous environments. Traditionally, -e has been assumed to be a sentence-final ending, a conjunction, and/or a complementizer. I argue that it is in fact not any of these elements and that there is only one kind of –e in the grammar of Korean. That is, in all the environments where it shows up, -e is a morphological closer in the sense of Kang (1988) that is postsyntactically inserted to support a [+V] stem to make it morphologically legitimate.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Sentence-final -E

3. Non-final -E

4. Summing Up: -E as a Morphological Closer

키워드

sentence-final ending morphological closer verb serialization construction complementizer clause type