Article published in:
Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries
Edited by Yoshiko Matsumoto, Bernard Comrie and Peter Sells
[Typological Studies in Language 116] 2017
► pp. 59–89

Noun-modifying constructions in Korean

| University of York
| University of York
We survey clausal noun-modification examples in Korean, initially setting out constructions into these types: argument and adjunct NMCCs, content noun NMCCs, and a group of other extended NMCCs. We show that the range of interpretations of NMCCs in Korean is not quite as broad as Japanese, but nevertheless we argue that the wide variety of interpretations in Korean motivates the claim that it has a GNMCC. We also argue, based on observed constraints on movement, that the Korean argument and adjunct NMCCs constitute an RC construction. We propose that there is no conflict in a language having both a syntactically identifiable RC construction as well as a GNMCC.
Keywords: Korean, content noun NMCCs, extended NMCCs, relative clause, island constraints, multiple nominative construction,
Published online: 28 February 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.116.04kim
References

References

Baldwin, Timothy
1998 The Analysis of Japanese Relative Clauses. M.Eng. thesis, Tokyo Institute of Technology.Google Scholar
Bugaeva, Anna & Whitman, John
2016 Deconstructing clausal noun modifying constructions. In Japanese/Korean Linguistics 23, Ted Levin, Ryo Masuda & Michael Kenstowicz (eds). Stanford CA: CSLI.Google Scholar
Cha, Jong-Yul
2005 Constraints on Clausal Complex Noun Phrases in Korean with Focus on the Gapless Relative Clause Construction. PhD dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Google Scholar
Doron, Edit & Heycock, Caroline
1999 Filling and licensing multiple specifiers. In Specifiers: Minimalist Approaches, David Adger, Susan Pintzuk, Bernadette Plunkett & George Tsoulas (eds), 69–89. Oxford: OUP.Google Scholar
Han, Chung-hye & Kim, Jong-Bok
2004 Are there “double relative clauses” in Korean? Linguistic Inquiry 35: 315–337. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Hoshi, Koji
2004 Remarks on N-final relativization in Japanese. English Language and Literature 44: 113–147. Yokohama: Keio University.Google Scholar
Kameshima Nanako.
1990 On aboutness conditions. In Japanese/Korean Linguistics 1, Hajime Hoji (ed.), 255–267. Stanford CA: CSLI.Google Scholar
Keenan, Edward L. & Comrie, Bernard
1977 Noun phrase accessibility and universal grammar. Linguistic Inquiry 8: 63–99.Google Scholar
Kim, Ilkyu
2013 Rethinking “island effects” in Korean relativization. Language Science 38: 59–82. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Kim, Jong-Bok
2000 A local treatment of nonlocal relativization in Korean. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 157–169. Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley.Google Scholar
Kim, Shin-Sook
2011 Noun complements and clause types in Korean (and Japanese). In Japanese/Korean Linguistics 18, William McClure & Marcel den Dikken (eds), 278–290. Stanford CA: CSLI.Google Scholar
Kuno, Susumu
1973 The Structure of the Japanese Language. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press.Google Scholar
Kuroda, Shige-Yuki
1986 Movement of noun phrase in Japanese. In Issues in Japanese Linguistics, Takashi Imai & Mamoru Saito (eds), 229–271. Dordrecht: Foris.Google Scholar
Lee, Chungmin & Lee, Jeong-Shik
2012 Gap in “gapless” relative clauses in Korean and other Asian languages. In Theories of Everything. In Honor of Ed Keenan [UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics 17], Thomas Graf, Denis Paperno, Anna Szabolcsi & Jos Tellings (eds), 204–214. Los Angeles CA: Department of Linguistics, UCLA.Google Scholar
Maling, Joan & Kim, Soowon
1992 Case assignment in the inalienable possession construction in Korean. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 1: 37–68. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Matsumoto, Yoshiko
1989 Japanese-style noun modification…in English. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Shelley Axmaker & Helen Singmaster (eds), 226–237. Berkeley CA: BLS.Google Scholar
1997 Noun-Modifying Constructions in Japanese: A Frame Semantic Approach [Studies in Language Companion Series 35]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Nakayasu, Minako
1999 Extensibility in Japanese noun modification. Proceedings of the 13th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 3–14. Taiwan, ROC.Google Scholar
Nikiforidou, Kiki
2005 Conceptual blending and the interpretation of relatives: A case study from Greek. Cognitive Linguistics 16: 169–206. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Saito, Mamoru
1985 Some Asymmetries in Japanese and Their Theoretical Implications. PhD dissertation, MIT.Google Scholar
Sakai, Hiromu
1994 Complex NP constraint and case-conversions in Japanese. In Current Topics in English and Japanese, Masaru Nakamura (ed.), 179–203. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.Google Scholar
Shimojo, Mitsuaki
2002 Functional theories of island phenomena: The case of Japanese. Studies in Language 26(1): 6–123. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Sohn, Ho-Min
2001 The Korean Language. Cambridge: CUP.Google Scholar
Sohn, Sung-Ock S.
1995 Tense and Aspect in Korean [Center for Korean Studies Monograph 18]. Honolulu HI: University of Hawai‘i Press.Google Scholar
Takahashi, Shino
1997 Use and Functions of Optional [to iu] in Japanese Clausal Noun Modification. MA thesis, University of British Columbia.Google Scholar
Teramura, Hideo
1969 The syntax of noun modification in Japanese. Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese 6: 64–74. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Tomioka, Satoshi & Sim, Chang-Yong
2005 Event structure of the inalienable possession in Korean. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 11(1): 22.Google Scholar
Whitman, John
2013 The prehead relative clause problem. In Proceedings of WAFL 8, Umut Özge (ed.), 361–380. Cambridge MA: MITWPL.Google Scholar
Yoon, James Hye-Suk
1989 The grammar of inalienable possession constructions in Korean, Mandarin and French. Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics III, 357–368.Google Scholar
2004 Non-nominative major subjects and case stacking in Korean. In Non-nominative Subjects, Vol. 2 [Typological Studies in Language 61], Peri Bhaskararao & Karumuri Venkata Subbarao (eds), 265–314. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. CrossrefGoogle Scholar