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Vol. 19:1 (2023) ► pp.1–30

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A role of functional morphemes in Korean categorial grammars

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Published online: 8 June 2023
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Abstract
This study discusses a role of functional morphemes in Korean categorial grammars, providing the reviews of various types of Korean categorial grammars that have never been conducted so far, notwithstanding many previous studies on them. Previous work has presented different morphological segmentation because of Korean’s agglutinative characteristics, implying that Korean words may contain a different segmentation sequence of morphemes. We focus on functional morphemes in Korean categorial grammars, which have been explored in different ways by previous work. We present detailed analyses for postpositions and verbal endings in categorial grammars, insisting that the functional morphemes in Korean should be treated as part of a word, with the result that their categories do not require to be assigned individually in a syntactic level, and also that it would be more efficient to assign the syntactic categories on the fully inflected lexical word derived by the lexical rule of the morphological processes in the lexicon.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.A recapitulation of categorial grammars
  • 3.Previous work on Korean categorial grammars
    • 3.1Kang B.-M.’s categorial grammars
    • 3.2Multiset-CCG of Korean
    • 3.3Kang J.-Y.’s ACCG
  • 4.Functional morphemes in Korean
    • 4.1Postpositions
    • 4.2Verbal endings
    • 4.3Discussion
  • 5.Discussion on Korean categorial grammars
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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