Semantic taxonomy, direct compositionality, and unlike nominal coordinations in Korean

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ID10141590
AuthorsJuwon Lee (0000-0003-1880-7614, Jeonju University, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume61
Issue4
Pages777-820
Publication date2025-01-15
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-2267 • E-ISSN: 1469-7742
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022226724000367
OpenAlexW4406403566
LanguageEN
References cited42

This paper investigates Korean nominal coordination, a distant conjunct of which is semantically incompatible with the subcategorizing verb in a sentence. This type of nominal coordination is supported by both corpus-based and experimental data. Such coordinations pose a challenge to previous approaches to coordination in the literature. Specifically, any theory directly linking the subcategorizing verb to such a distant conjunct encounters the issue of semantic incompatibility. To address this issue, based on Lee (2020), I propose associating the distant conjunct with a direct hypernym of the verb. While the primary focus is on conjunctive nominal coordinations, the hypothesis also extends to disjunctive nominal coordinations. This semantic taxonomy-based account is then formally implemented in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (Pollard & Sag 1994; Sag et al. 2003), adapting the generalized conjunction from Partee & Rooth (1983). Furthermore, I argue that this analysis can serve as a basis for explaining other related constructions in Korean

Biology · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Principle of compositionality · Taxonomy (biology · Zoology · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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