ABSTRACT
This chapter starts by providing a brief survey of dependent elements or particles in Korean. There are largely three different classes of particles: nominal, verbal and cross-categorial particles. Then, we observe how they are analyzed in those previous works in which the existence of clitics is not taken into consideration. These works, whose number is far greater than that of those providing clitic analyses, assume that particles can be divided into affixes and words. We also cover those that posit “clitics” for theory-internal reasons. There have been many different types of approaches to particles, ranging from (extreme) lexicalist approaches to (extreme) syntactic approaches. The former, assuming a version of the lexical integrity principle, tend to analyze particles as affixes. The latter tend to analyze them as words (i.e., as “clitics”) regardless of their morphosyntactic properties.
