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This paper argues that the ‘non-standard’ alternant palay- ofKorean verb pala- ‘to hope/wish’ emerged as the result of paradigmatic analogy.

Examination of corpus data reveals that pala-/palay- alternation can beassociated with the morphological pattern of ha- ‘do’, a dominantlyhigh-frequency element. Previous studies arguing for a paradigmatic analogyanalysis of palay- either fall short of explaining the distribution of nominalizedpalam/palaym or fail to produce hard evidence for their proposals. Opposingscholars have also raised critical questions based on the timeline of Korean’sdiachronic change, which have not been responded to. In the course ofaddressing these issues, this paper provides quantitative proof in favor of theparadigmatic analogy hypothesis, especially in comparison with other verbs thatshare similar stem-final morphophonology. Moreover, we point out that therebuttals against such an analysis are based on incorrect generalizationsregarding separate diachronic processes. The emergence of nominalized palaym,which our analysis initially seems not to predict, can be explained by the factthat stem reanalysis is usually centered around the alternant that precedesvowel-initial particles, and by probing other dialects of Korean.