On Hiatus Resolution with the Vocative Marker -a

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Myung-Kwan Park
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제125호, 27~44쪽, 전체 18쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
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• 발행일자: 2025.03.31

국문 초록

Yim (2024) investigates the obligatory omission of the noun-forming suffix -i before the vocative marker -a, attributing it to haplology. Under Yim’s approach, the phi-features on the suffix are immediately followed by the same type of phi-features on the vocative marker, leading to the omission of the former. In contrast, this paper advances a hiatus resolution-based analysis for the omission at issue. Observing that glide insertion generally occurs before the vocative marker when the noun attached with the marker ends in a vowel, we argue that hiatus resolution, rather than haplology, drives the omission of the noun-forming suffix. This analysis avoids appealing to phi-features, whose presence in Korean syntax lacks strong empirical support. Additionally, we demonstrate that certain problematic cases for Yim’s approach are naturally accounted for under the general pattern of hiatus resolution in Korean.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Yim’s (2024) Haplology-Based Approach

3. A Proposed Hiatus Resolution Approach

4. Conclusion

References

키워드

vocative marker -a noun-forming suffix -i haplology hiatus resolution vowel omission