2013.08.29 09:01
음성음운형태론연구 19집 2호 Lee, Ponghyung
Lee, Ponghyung. 2013. Assibilation or analogy?: Reconsideration of Korean noun stem-endings. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 19.2. 317-338.
This paper discusses two approaches to the nominal stem-endings in Korean
inflection including loanwords: one is the assibilation approach, represented by H.
Kim (2001) and the other is the analogy approach, represented by Albright (2002 et
sequel) and Y. Kang (2003b). I contend that the assibilation approach is deficient in
handling its underapplication to the non-nominal categories such as verb. More
specifically, the assibilation approach is unable to clearly explain why spirantization
(s-assibilation) applies neither to derivative nouns nor to non-nominal items in its
entirety. By contrast, the analogy approach is able to overcome difficulties involved
with the assibilation position. What is crucial to the analogy approach is that the
nominal bases end with t rather than s. Evidence of t-ending bases is garnered from
the base selection criteria, disparities between t-ending and s-ending inputs in
loanwords. Unconventionally, I dare to contend that normative rules via orthography
intervene as part of paradigm extension, alongside semantic conditioning and
token/type frequency. (Daejeon University)