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Chapter 14 - Person-Denoting Nominals: Interpretations and Structures

from Part III - Morphology and Syntax

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2022

By
Shin-Sook Kim  and
Peter Sells
Edited by
Sungdai Cho  and
John Whitman
Sungdai Cho
Affiliation:
Binghamton University, State University of New York
John Whitman
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

Chapter 14 examines several sets of person-denoting nominals that show interesting patterns in terms of how they participate in compounding and how they take arguments and modifiers in the syntax. Using a few key exemplar nominals such as ‘writer’, ‘author’, and ‘passenger’, the chapter argues that the different structures in which the nominals appear relate to whether the denotation of a given use of the nominal is fundamentally dispositional, relating to a long-term property, or fundamentally episodic, relating to a particular event or situation. It illustrates several morphological and syntactic differences which it then accounts for in terms of these semantic properties. The last part of the chapter examines NP-internal syntax and develops an account for structures involving modifiers which are marked with genitive case, and those which lack genitive marking.

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nominaldispositionalepisodicunsaturated nominalcompoundinggenitive dropnoun phrase syntax
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The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics , pp. 394 - 428
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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