Abstract: This paper aims to investigate the patterns of derivative food nouns from Korean cuisine verbs. Two most productive nominal suffixes are -i, and -(eu)m in word formation of Korean. These suffixes attach the stems of cuisine and compose several bases or nouns, and these bases combine with nouns which represent the materials of cooking, and become the compound nouns. On occasion the words which mean the method to cook, combine with the derivative nouns from cuisine verbs. The binding of verbs stem and suffix plays as a base from which a derivative noun. Besides above two suffixes, zero-suffix is relevant to forming the base. And though they are small number, -gae and -eogi are able to make a derivative food nouns.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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