Grammatical Judgment ofKorean Short-form Negation as Prefix

Abstract

This study aims to do a research for the judgement of the grammaticality of the short-form negation sentences through SNGM following hierarchical constrains within the theoretical framework of Optimality approach. Unlike long-form negation, the expressions including short-form negations that could act as prefixes show the patterns of distributional limitations with derivatives, compound words, long-syllable words, Sino-Korean words, and idiomatic expressions. However, in these days, some people show that they seem to feel comfortable though they even add short-form negations with those limited expressions; moreover, the previous studies could not find how to explain this phenomenon. Following the survey, we statistically discover the fact that as the predicate forms include more and more limitations, they hardly allow the attachment of short-form negation, and the number of accepted cases in the survey questionnaire is significantly recessed. In addition, we come across the result that there exists the hierarchy among the limitations. Idiomatic expressions are the hardest criterion when short-form negations tend to get combined. In the case of other limitations, Sino-Korean words, compound words, long-syllable words, and derivatives follow it.