RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Ahn, Sang-Cheol YR 1998 T1 Constraints in Verbal Compounding JF Korean Linguistics VO 9 IS 1 SP 39 OP 64 DO https://doi.org/10.1075/kl.9.02sca PB John Benjamins SN 0257-3784, AB The purpose of this paper is two fold. First, I will examine the internal structure of the N-V-i construction, in terms of the constraints on argument linking. I will incorporate the major concepts in current morphological studies (Sproat 1985, Di Sciullo &1 Williams 1987, and Grimshaw 1990). As for the related issues in Korean, I will reexamine the earlier studies of Ahn (1985), Sohn (1987), H.-Y. Kim (1990), Yu-Cho (1994), and Shi (1993, 1995). Then, I will provide a new categorization of compounds in terms of morpho-lexical and semantic consideration. I will test this categorization phonologically.Second, I will examine several constraints on the selection of a proper nominalizing suffixal form. For this part, I will employ the framework of the Optimality Theory by Prince & Smolensky (1993) and McCarthy & Prince (1993, 1994). Here I will propose five major constraints and their dominance hierarchy and show how these constraints and the dominance relation can account for the optimal selection of the surface form., UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/kl.9.02sca