Bound Noun man in Korean

This paper scrutinizes the nature of a bound noun man in Korean. Bound nouns in Korean cannot stand alone in a sentence without an aid of other words. For example, the bound noun kes and cis require the presence of other lexical words such as adjuncts, possessors or complements. However, if the aiding material is a functional word such as numerals or classifiers, the sentences with the bound noun kes and cis are ungrammatical (Kim 2016a, 2016b). Interestingly, the behavior of the bound noun man is the opposite to that of the bound noun kes and cis: the bound noun man needs the aid of functional items, but not lexical ones. In this paper, I argue that the bound noun man directly merges in the small n position unlike the bound noun kes and cis. I further claim that it has a [+affixal] feature which should be satisfied by attracting the complement N to the small n position or by movement to the Num position.