관용구의 문법범주

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is first to classify as many sentence patterns of Nominal Idiomatic Phrases (NIP) and Verbal Idiomatic Phrases (VIP) as possible on the basis of the Contemporary Corpus of the 21 Century Sejong Electronic Dictionary, and second, to claim that both NIPs and VIPs are lexically stored XPs that are stored in the lexicon as they are, that is, as XPs. Because of that, the inner syntactic structure of a idiomatic phrase is closed to other syntactic constituents so that an adnominal and adverbial modification for one of the inner constituent of the idiomatic phrase are not possible. In Chapter 3, we have examined the syntactic structures and sentence patterns of the NIP. Among many we find some extraordinary syntactic structures which are not the cases in normal syntactic structures. There is a case of NN type NIP as ‘Nakdongkang Orial’, which we may treat as a compound word. And also there are cases where the case markers as -ey, -i, -nun are combined with one constituent of a phrase resulting in a NIP. And there is a case in which an adverbial phrase is directly combined with a noun instead of a main clause, which is not the case in a normal syntactic structure. In Chapter 4, we have classified the syntactic patterns of the NIPs, when they are realized in an actual sentence. And we have made clear the fact that a NIP has different syntactic pattern as contrast to a non-idiomatic expression has. In addition, we have claimed that, due to the aforementioned characteristics, NIPs as well as VIPs must be treated as lexical words which are stored in the lexicon. In Chapter 5, based on the preceding chapters, we have intensively investigated the grammatical categories of the NIPs and VIPs. We have introduced in detail the notion of lexical word and its conditions to be. Finally we have shown 11 different reasons, why we the NIPs and VIP must see as lexical words in Korean.