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On Place-name Suffix /i/(-이) in Korean

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2007, (63), pp.29-51
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

성희제 1

1한밭대

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ABSTRACT

This paper study on the meaning and structure of suffix /i/(-이) related with place-name. Suffix /i/ has no any lexical meaning. Suffix /i/ plays two kinds of roles in formative morpheme. One is connected with front place-name morpheme and the other is connected with back place-name morpheme. In general, suffix /i/ is connected with place-name of two syllables. But it is also connected with place-name whose last syllable is closed. In addition, suffix /i/ has phonologically complex functions in place-name. For example, suffix /i/ changes closed syllable into open syllable in last syllable, and change two syllables into three syllables. Siffix /i/ make the syllable of place-name stable. When unmarkedness ∅ is established in place-name structure, we get a grasp of the structures of place-name with suffix /i/.

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