Analysis of Korean Predicative Verb Forms in LAG Framework

Korean predicative verb forms obligatorily denote the three categories speech level, mood and sentence type which are not handled by most of the automatic word form recognition systems for this language. These categories are marked by special endings. This paper examines predicative verb forms concentrating on the lexical description of these endings in the framework of Left-Associative Grammar (LAG). Additionally this paper suggests a system to analyse verb forms in these aspects. The results of this study have been implemented using Malaga$^2$ and integrated into an automatic word form recognition system for Korerin called KMM (Korean Malaya Morphology).