arXiv Computation and Language By Wonjun Oh, KyungTae Lim, Jungyeul Park

Lexically conditioned realization ambiguity in Korean predicate morphology

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The article investigates Korean predicate morphology, showing that a sequence of canonical morphemes and grammatical labels does not uniquely determine the surface form for certain predicates. It demonstrates that identical or nearly identical stem-ending configurations can produce different outputs depending on lexical identity and realization class membership. The study frames this as homonymy with inflectional divergence, highlighting that lexical meaning, subcategorization, and semantic role structure are essential for determining the correct surface realization.

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