두 가지 유형의 소위 한국어 동격 구문

This paper deals with two types of so-called appositional constructions in Korean. One is the [NP1 NP2]-construction where both NPs are definite NPs. We call this 'identificational construction.' The other is the [NP1 NP2]-construction where NP1 is an indefinite NP and NP2 is a definite NP. We call this 'attributive construction.' After examining whether these two constructions share the properties of the loose or close apposition found by previous studies, we conclude that they do not, and thus are not appositional constructions. We suggest that the identificational construction is an epithet construction, in that NP2 is an epithet for its antecedent, NP1. As for the attributive construction, we consider NP1 to be adjoined as a predicate to NP2, the subject.