Korean Copular Constructions: A Lexical Sharing Approach

In (1) the modifier ilpon-eyse o-n forms a constituent with the head noun salam. This N is also the host of the positive copula, and so a favored analysis has been that -iis a clitic (e.g., Yoon (2003)) – a V in syntax that forms a phonological word with its adjacent N host, indicated by the ‘=’ in (3). We refer to this as the ‘clitic analysis’. The negative copula has the same syntax but is not a clitic.

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