Doran (2021):
Blogger Comments:
[1] To be clear, it is not true that Korean nominal groups afford a maximum of only one Epithet. This claim is invalidated, for example, by the instance khu-n say chayk ‘big new book’, which appears in the paper Word Order and NP Structure in Korean: A Constraint Based
Approach by Kim, Lee & Lee.
[2] To be clear, this example does not demonstrate that potential second Epithets can only be accommodated in Korean nominal groups "through complexing at the rank below". There are two reasons for this. The first is that jeongi 'electricity' is a Classifier, not a potential Epithet, and the second is that the structure of the nominal group does not involve "complexing at the rank below"; it is simply structured as Epithet ^ Classifier ^ Thing:
