For making a full list of defective verbs/adjectives in Korean

For making a full list of defective verbs/adjectives in Korean

 

Bae Juchae

 

 

「불비용언의 목록 작성 시론」 『한국문화』81, 서울대 규장각한국학연구원, 2018. 3. 31. (pp.285-321)

Han'guk Munhwa: Korean Culture 81, March 2018, Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul National University. pp.285-321.

    Korean is said to have some defective verbs/adjectives, but the full list has not been presented. Unabridged Korean dictionaries can help make the full list of defective verbs/adjectives. Standard Korean Language Dictionary (2008) gives the constraints on the conjugation of a defective verb/adjective in a fixed form, i.e. "used in the form of ...". So we can find all of the defective verbs/adjectives in the web-based dictionary by searching for entries with kkol 'form' in their grammatical information. The search results are 145 entries. We recognized a defective verb/adjective if it has two or more but not many conjugational forms. The final list of defective verbs/adjectives consists of 88 words. But it is to be improved since it is not always clear which conjugational forms a verb/adjective can have.

 

Keywords: defective verb, defective adjective, conjugational paradigm, conjugational form, Standard Korean Language Dictionary