Some Remarks on Korean Nominalizations

Abstract

Korean nominalizations, which we define as grammatical devices by which verbal constituents of Korean are transformed into the nominal pattern of usage in morphology, in syntax, or both, can be classed into two distinctive types: 'suffixal' nominalization and 'phrasal' nominalization; one by the suffixing of nominalizers to verbal constituents, the other by the postposing of bound nouns, e.g. -kes, -cwul, and -pa, to verbal constituents.