THE STRUCTURE OF NOMINALIZATIONS IN KOREAN

Fedotova A. M.

This paper is devoted to the study of the structure of -(u)m, -ki and -nun kes nominalizations in Korean. The data in Korean oral and written corpora SJ-RIKS demonstrates non-uniform categorical nature of nominalizations in Korean. The article proposes two models for representing the structure of Korean nominalizations – the N-IP structure and the N-VP structure.

Keywords:structure of nominalizations, Korean language, constituency grammar, Korean corpora