한국어 통합합성어 형성 원리 재고

This paper proposes a syntax-driven analysis of newly-coined synthetic compounds. The majority of newly-coined synthetic compounds exhibit syntactic relations, in which a preceding nominal element functions as an object or an adjunct of its following verbal element, as is the case of existing synthetic compounds. Based on a critical review of contrasting previous approaches to synthetic compounds, namely a lexicalist and a syntactic approach, this paper analyzes that newly-coined synthetic compounds have structures in which a nominalizing functional head directly merges with a Root phrase. The structure of a synthetic compound is contrasted with that of a syntactic phrasal counterpart in that the latter involves a verbal functional head v before its merging with a nominalizing head. The proposed analysis solves non-trivial problems which have been raised in the previous approaches, and has desirable theoretical implications on a theory of word-formation. This paper supports an approach of the Distributed Morphology, which argues for word-formation in the syntax.