This paper takes a corpus-based approach and examines the linguistic properties of two Korean nominalizers -(u)m and -ki. From the Sejong Treebank corpus, all the sentences with -(u)m and -ki are extracted. Twenty linguistic factors are manually encoded into the extracted sentences. Then, all the encoded data are statistically analyzed with (binary) logistic regression. Although we take a monofactorial analysis, we obtain a good statistical model whose C value is 0.956. Through the analysis, the followings are observed: (i) -(u)m and -ki are used with the ratio of 1:9 in Korean, (ii) among twenty linguistic factors, only ten factors are statistically significant, and (iii) not only the verbs which take -(u)m and -ki as a complement but also the verbs which merge with these two nominalizers also play important roles in the determination of nominalizers.
1. Introduction
2. Previous studies
3. Research method
4. Analysis results
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
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