Morphosyntax of predicates and syntactic categories in Korean

We argue that Korean predicates do not have a richly articulated morphosyntactic structure; they are restricted to the bipartite structure [[√rootP] v] where v is the locus for predicate-forming suffixes. This single slot property of Korean predicates is responsible for the paucity of the kinds of morphosyntactic structures Korean predicates can be associated with, filtering out multiple appearances of predicate-forming suffixes in a predicate and the unexpected degree of parallelism that ‘adjectives’ show. ‘Adjectives’ have the same morphosyntactic structure as verbs. The successful unification of these two independent facts about morphosyntax of Korean predicates gives some support to the acategorial approach to words.