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This paper focuses on adjectivo-adverbial modifications in Korean such as ‘gingeup 긴급 pagyeonhada파견하다 (dispatch urgently or make an urgent dispatch)’, and ‘eomjung 엄중 hangeuihada항의하다 (protest strictly or make a strict protest)’. In order to solve these problematics related to conversion of parts of speech, it is necessary to elucidate the nature of the construction ‘X-hada’. It is also important to know what is its correlation with the construction ‘X-leul hada’. We analyze the construction ‘X-hada’ as a syntactic combination of predicative noun X and support verb hada, which is lexicalized as a verbal unit. And the construction ‘X-leul hada’ is analyzed as a syntactic construction inserted by the delimiter/determiner ‘leul’. Consequently we argue that the so-called root or adnominal noun gingeup 긴급, eomjung 엄중 should be redefined as adjectives, at least ‘adjectival nouns’ so as to account for the ambiguity of both adjective-noun modification ‘eomjung 엄중 hangeui항의’ and adverb-verb modification ‘eomjung 엄중 hangeuihada항의하다’ through the universality of the conversion of adjectives into adverbs.