Word Orders of Korean Adnominals.

The purpose of this study is to define the relative word orders of Korean adnominals. In order to accomplish this aim, I subclassify adnominals into nominal-adnominals and predicative-adnominals at first, then into the traditional subclassifications as demonstrative, numeric and attributive adnominals. I argue that my subclassification gives more accurate explanations for some exceptional word order problems among many adnominals which are not solved till now. That is, while nominal-adnominals have relatively fixed syntactic positions as demonstratives - numerics - attributives respectably in their order, predicative-adnominals are not the same as that. Some predicative-adnominals observe the relative word order, but others do not. They are free in their syntactic positions, and these kinds of adnominals also show peculiar syntactic behaves which are not mentioned till now. That is, they can be conjugated with adjectives, be replaced by proform, and be modified by adverbs. These extraordinary phenomena are explained also.