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This paper attempts how /h/-final substantives in Middle Korean realizes as floating /h/ within the view of Government Phonology. The floating /h/ has a single element as (H). On the basis of (H), when a vowel with a postposition and vowel with a lax consonant undergo aspirated. On the other hand, the environment such as non-elements or /s, m/ consonants occurs, in this situation, /h/ is deleted. Furthermore, the maintenance of /h/ in this environment is also deleted. In order to treat these processes, we adopt the morphology-phonology interface in which Government-Phonology recognizes two types of structure: analytic and non-analytic. In an analytic construction, morphology is visible to phonology, while in a non-analytic structure the phonology is insensitive to morphology. The former has the type of [[A] B]; whereas the latter has the type of [A B]. Concretely, for the structure [[A] B], relevant phonological processes apply to A and concatenate with B, with phonological processes then applying to the concatenation (i.e. [A B]). In the non-analytic structure [A B], phonological processes simply apply to the result of concatenation. This implies that non-analytic structures are treated in the same way as mono-morphemic words. On the basis of /h/-final consonant deletion processes, these phenomena are treated as the substantive of properties.