한국어 술어의 사건 구조와 상적 의미

Abstract

This paper, extending the previous formal theories of lexical semantics, has proposed a semantic typology of predicates in Korean. The paper classified the predicates in terms of event structure and argument structure, which are represented in a formal semantic structure. It is claimed that the relation between event structure and argument structure plays a crucial role in argument realization at syntactic level. Diverse classes of argument alternation have been analysed in terms of event structure. The paper identifies more fine-grained aspectual characters of predicates, and represents them in their event structure. The paper shows that complex events may assign Head to both subevents and further it claims that there are at least seven ways to interpret Headedness of complex events. Aspectual meanings are identified in six constructions including durative/frame adverbials, aspectual adverbs, morphological passives, and progressive/durative constructions in Korean. The proposal based on event structure is ready to be applied to various argument alternation classes in natural lanugages as welll as Korean. This paper reveals that there should be a natural principle mapping lexical syntax to semantics,and vice versa. Therefore, more interesting mapping principles governing the interface will be discovered in between syntax and semantics of lexical predicates.