한국어 통합합성어의 통사구조와 형태-통사론의 접면

This paper proposes a syntax-driven analysis of synthetic compounds in Korean. Synthetic compounds exhibit various semantic and syntactic properties distinct from their syntactic counterparts. This paper argues that synthetic compounds and their syntactic counterparts are both derived in the syntax by the merge of the nominalizing functional category, but they differ in its merge site; the nominalizing functional category merges with a Root phrase in the case of synthetic compounds whereas it takes a vP in syntactic counterparts. The proposed analysis solves the problems, from which the previous syntactic and lexicalist approaches suffer. This paper supports the approach of Distributed Morphology, which argues for word-formations in the syntax.