숫자는 객관적 수치를 나타내는 수량 전달의 기본적인 기능 외에도 다양한 함축적인 의미를 전달하는 역할을 할 수 있다. 특히 중국어에는 종종 숫자와 조합된 줄임 말을 활용하여 어떤 대상을 대신하여 지칭하거나, 주요 내용을 포괄하여 명시하기도 한다. 그중 가장 익숙한 예시로 ‘两会’는 ‘全国人民代表大会’(전국 인민 대표 대회)와 ‘政治协商会议’(정치 협상 회의)를 통칭하는 말이며, ‘一国两制는 “하나의 국가 내에 두 체제를 허용 한다”는 의미이다. 이와 같은 단어 구성을 숫자 줄임말이라 부른다. 숫자 줄임말은 특히 사회 정책이나 주요 사안을 제시하는 정부 공문서에서 자주 볼 수 있는데, 각각 상이한 숫자가 다양한 형태로 조합되어 나타난다. 또 일부 숫자는 표면적으로는 같은 숫자라 하더라도 상황에 따라 각기 다른 의미나 기능을 나타낼 수 있으며, 숫자를 제외한 부분 또한 간단한 단어에서부터 구, 비교적 긴 문장까지 다양한 형식을 띠고 있다. 본고는 중국 정부 공문서에서 나타나는 숫자 줄임말의 내부 형식을 언어학적으로 분석하고, 그것에 함축된 의미도 살펴보고자 한다.

The purpose of this paper is to show that if ‘-ise’, ‘-se’ and ‘-i’ are treated as allomorphs. Since ‘-i’ attached to numerals and classifiers in the numeral quantifier constructions can be supposed to have adverbiality, the numerals and classifiers associated with such an element can be introduced in vP. Furthermore, we attempt to prove that nominative case marking can be deleted in the constructions. For the purpose of this paper, we investigate the analyses by several scholars on the allomorphy, finding out that ‘-i’ can be an abbreviation of ‘-ise’, a nominative case marker and affix. Within the vP, as ‘honca(se)’ functions as an adverbial phrase, if ‘seys-i(se)’ and ‘seymyeng-i(se)’ also do so, we can explain why phrases like ‘seymyeng-i’ can be in the vP. In addition, we examine nominative case ellipsis phenomenon in the light of Hong's generalization that case markers are optional to arguments in the complement position but obligatory to arguments in the spec positions, rethinking the possibility of the ellipsis of nominative case makers.

Korean is classified into classifier languages, which require a classifier regardless of whether nouns are count or mass, while English is a typical non-classifier language, where only mass nouns require classifiers when counting. While most of the previous studies have focused on the acquisition order of classifiers based on their semantic features (e,g, human, shape, function, etc.), it should be noted that the correct use of classifiers requires syntactic knowledge as well as semantic knowledge (K. Lee and S. Lee, 2009). However, little is known about the L2 acquisition of syntactic knowledge related to classifier construction such as EPP feature (Byun and Ha, 2015). Against this background, this study aims to articulate what must be acquired by English-speaking learners for the correct use of Korean numeral-classifier constructions, and to investigate whether the syntactic properties are acquirable for them. 85 adult English-speaking learners at four proficiency levels (low intermediate; high intermediate; low advanced; advanced) and 31 native Korean speakers performed an elicitation task. The findings show that the advanced group produced the correct classifier constructions in the majority of cases in a similar way to the native speaker (NS) control group, while the lower proficiency groups supplied classifiers significantly less frequently than the NSs. The overall group results suggest that highly proficient learners have successfully acquired the required syntactic knowledge, even though its complete acquisition is delayed until advanced stages of L2 development.