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초록

Suppletion occurs when the alternants of a lexeme or a morpheme induces formal differences that are difficult to predict. The formal correlation of The variants should be maximally regular, but they must be as regular as possible to satisfy the correlation of the variants. The more different the meaning, the more likely they belong to different lexemes each other or be recognized as different another morphemes each other. This article represents an application of the canonical approach to suppletion. 14 criteria are suggested and suppletive forms are evaluated according to the criteria. The most canonical suppletion is a fusion of stem and affix. This is because it is difficult to know what meaning is expressed only by the form. Since Korean a kind of agglutinative languages, it is difficult for the grammatical categories such as gender, number, tense, etc. to form the paradigm of nouns or verbs. From the perspective of inflection, it is easy to apply such criteria to suppletive forms, which are the combinations of various grammatical stems and suffixes. In Korean language the criteria have to be applied to stems or suffixes separately instead of paradigms of nouns or verbs. If a certain alternant of a ending only combines with minimal amounts of stems or if a certain alternant of a stem only combines with a particular ending, they are close to canonical suppletion. If an alternation occurs according to a syntactic condition, a semantic condition or a pragmatic condition, It is hard to describe it as a canonical suppletion. It is because these conditions are likely to recognized as the part of the alternant, therefore it is likely to belong to a different lexeme.

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