A Curious Class of Adpositional Multiword Expressions in Korean

TL;DR

This paper investigates Korean postpositional verb-based constructions, providing analysis, annotation guidelines, and highlighting their importance for integrating Korean MWEs into cross-lingual frameworks.

Contribution

It offers the first systematic analysis and annotation guidelines for Korean multiword adpositions, specifically PVCs, enhancing cross-lingual MWE research.

Findings

Surveyed Korean PVC expressions from Wikipedia data

Contrasted PVCs with non-MWEs and light verb constructions

Proposed annotation guidelines for Korean multiword adpositions

Abstract

Multiword expressions (MWEs) have been widely studied in cross-lingual annotation frameworks such as PARSEME. However, Korean MWEs remain underrepresented in these efforts. In particular, Korean multiword adpositions lack systematic analysis, annotated resources, and integration into existing multilingual frameworks. In this paper, we study a class of Korean functional multiword expressions: postpositional verb-based constructions (PVCs). Using data from Korean Wikipedia, we survey and analyze several PVC expressions and contrast them with non-MWEs and light verb constructions (LVCs) with similar structure. Building on this analysis, we propose annotation guidelines designed to support future work in Korean multiword adpositions and facilitate alignment with cross-lingual frameworks.