The Forms and Meanings of Plurals in Korean.

Donghoon Lim

This paper deals with the forms and meanings of plurals with respect to the way how the concept of number is realized in Korean. The summary of this paper is as follows. First, the default forms of Korean nouns express general number which is irrelevant to number. And special plural marker 'deul' is needed to express the plurality of nouns. Therefore there is a formal contrast between general/singular vs. plural in Korean. Second, the default forms' likelyhood of singular reading is proportional to the scale of animacy. Third, the actual examples don't agree with the theory that 'deul' plurals are considered to be i-sums and default forms are considered to be groups. And there are no connections between 'deul' marker in nouns and distributivity in predicates. Fourth, there are two kind of 'deul's in Korean where the one is an affix expressing individual plurals and the other is a particle expressing event plurals. The former is combined with nouns and the latter is combined with verbal projections. Fifth, 'deul' of event plural is devoted into expressing distributivity, so distributivity makers in Korean are bifurcated into nominal distributive marker 'mada' and verbal distributive marker 'deul'. Sixth, there are no connections between 'deul' of event plural and the plurality of subject in a sentence.

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