n-insertion takes place after a consonant followed by i, j in Korean Previous studies on n-insertion have not systematically investigated the reason why it occurs Thus the first aim of this paper is to answer the questions why n-insertion occurs and furthermore why n is inserted The second aim is to provide an Optimality Theoretic analysis of n-insertion There are three poi..
One of the most widely used constructions in Korean is the so-called light verb construction (LVC) involving an active-denoting verbal noun (VN) together with the light verb ha-ta ``do`` This paper first discusses the argument composition of the LVC, mixed properties of VNs both of which have provided a challenge to syntactic analyses with a strict version of X-bar theor..
An Optimality Theoretic Analysis of Phonetically Motivated /n/-insertion
