명사 후 분류사 구문의 구조

The Structure of the Postnominal Numeral Classifier Construction

This paper investigates the structure of the postnominal numeral classifier construction, where a numeral classifier occurs after its associated Caseless nominal. I give some pieces of evidence that the classifier is not a functional head, but a noun, which has its own functional heads. So there are two head nouns, i.e., the classifier and its associated noun, in the postnominal numeral classifier construction. Regarding the structure of this construction, I assume, following Park S.-Y. (2009), that the classifier phrase and the associated noun phrase merge to make a small clause. But, unlike Park S.-Y., I propose that the former is merged as a subject and the latter as a predicate, and then, the latter (a predicate) moves over the former (a subject), which gives the correct order of the associated noun followed by the numeral classifier. In brief, the structure that I propose for the construction is an inverted predication structure.