Set-up for a Sentence without a Predicate

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, this pager tried to confirm that there is a limit to the basic premise that sentences are predicated by the verb stem. Second, this paper tried to summarize that the predicative of Korean sentences is formed of two ways. Traditionally, the predicate of the sentence has been explained mainly on the stem. However, there are examples that function as sentences even in the absence of a stem. A sentence is a constituent meaning one viewpoint and one reference situation of a speaker. In Korean, 'predicative' can be set 'an attribute that something commands arguments or adjuncts and then that something completes one situation into one grammar unit under the viewpoint of the speaker'. This paper focuses on "something". Some of sentence components in the Korean language are not in concord with the stem, but are sometimes in concord with the ending. But the ending has the main grammatical function as the ending. Therefore, it can not be said that only the ending plays the function of the predicate. The verb stem is the primary predicate and the ending is the secondary predicate. At this point, it should be assumed that the predicate is validated by at least one of the two. However, there are a lot of examples in the Korean language that the predicate is done without the ending as well as the stem. These sentences can not be restored by specifying the stem or ending of the predicate. One common feature of these examples is that there is a saturation category of nouns, adverbs, quotations, clauses, etc. in the place of the predicate. These sentences complete the sentence by putting a predicate element on the saturation category. Accordingly, the predicate of Korean sentences can be divided into two kinds. It is the segmental predicate and the non-segmental predicate. The non-segmental predicate do not take segmental positions in syntactic structures. It is realized through the saturation category. And the segmental predicate can be divided into two parts: stem and end. This paper hope that the setting for non-segmental predicates can contribute fundamentally to the study of the performative-intonation or to the method of syntactic analysis.