관형격조사 ‘의’의 두 유형:

Two Types of Adnominal Particle uy in Korean:

This paper identifies two types of uy , which has been called an adnominal particle in Korean, and presents a syntactic analysis of them. The particle uy can be divided into two types; genitive marker uy and modificational marker uy . The former, realized as structural Case, attaches to an argument noun phrase of referential semantic type. In contrast, the latter has a function of attributive modification, whereby combined with a non-argument noun phrase of property semantic type. Genitive marker uy is licensed at the Spec of DP position, whereas modificational marker uy occupies an NP-adjunction position. This paper also discusses so-called compound nouns, in which uy is not allowed to intervene. Those constructions are shown to have properties as syntactic products and to have type interpretations of head nouns.