A Contrastive Study of the Predicate Noun Constructions on Korean and Chinese

This paper attempts to contrast the Noun Adnominal constructions of Korean predicate nouns with the corresponding Chinese constructions and discuss the process of their formations. The similarities and differences are shown when contrasted with Chinese by focusing on predicate nouns and argument mark, which are components of he Noun Adnominal constructions. In interpreting the categorical characteristics of predicate nouns, predicate nouns show noun characteristics in the forms of syntactic, semantic, idiomatic characteristics, and the word class is clearly a noun. In the corresponding Chinese language, it shows the characteristics of verbal parts of speech from the syntactic point of view, the word class is a verb, and the nominalization occurs when the modification structure is formed. This explained predicate nouns and nominalization of verbs from the Distributed Morphology. when examining the realization of the particle，in the case of external arguments, it is common for the particles in both Korean and Chinese to be realized necessarily. In the case of internal arguments, the particles in Korea have the characteristics of optional realization. Unlike Korean, particles in Chinese are both necessarily and optionally realized. The syntactic features of particles realization structure and non realization structure present different characteristics. Through these different characteristics , their structure positions on different layers are confirmed.