Syntactic Parsing and the Syntax of Verbal Endings in Korean

Abstract

Even though the Korean language is referred as an agglutinative language, there has been no adequate analysis capturing the agglutinative nature. This paper argues that we can make a breakthroughin describing Korean syntax by abandoning the so-called phonological freeness condition and setting up phonologically bound syntactic units. We call the newly established category marker. This paper shows that thereby we can organize a proper syntactic model of Korean, which in turn provides a firm ground for developing Korean syntactic parser.