Bound Noun tongan in Korean

This paper discusses a bound noun tongan in Korean in terms of grammaticalization. As a bound noun, it cannot stand alone in a sentence, but requires some aid from other words. Like a bound noun kes (Kim 2016a), the help can be by lexical words such as an adjunct or a complement, and we find a semantically bleached meaning. Additionally, similar to a bound noun man (Kim 2017), it can be aided by functional words such as a numeral and a classifier and has a [+affixal] restriction. Thus, I argue that the bound noun tongan “straddles“ both structures of the bound noun kes and the bound noun man. However, the bound tongan should be within the “scope” of NumP: it should be either dominated or c-commanded by NumP because it should co-occur with time concepts. On the other hand, the bound noun man can be outside of the “scope,” since its delimitation meaning has been metaphorically extended to more general concepts other than the time ones.