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A Study on the Light Verb Construction in English and Korean
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- Issue Date
- 1994-03
- Publisher
- 서울대학교 언어교육원
- Citation
- 어학연구, Vol.30 No.1, pp. 137-159
- Abstract
- This paper is an attempt to analyze the light verb construction of Korean, based on the recent proposal of Hale and Keyser (1993a, 1993b, among others) regarding minimal X′-structure. This paper is primarily concerned with the grammatical difference found in the examples below:
(1) a. *Chelswu-ka malwu-lul ti ha-n chengsoi
-nom floor-acc do-rel cleaning
'lit: the cleaning that Chelswu did to the floor'
b. Chelswu-ka Yenghi-wa ti ha-n hapseki
-nom -with do-rel table-sharing
'lit: the table-sharing that Chelswu did with Yenghi'
The relative clause (1a) is formed with the verb chengsohata 'to clean' and (1b) comes from hapsekhata 'to table-share', both of which consist of a verbal noun plus a verb hata 'to do'. Where does the difference come from? At first glance, it is obvious that chengsohata is a transitive verb while hapsekhata in an (unergative) intransitive verb. However, the distinction of transtivity itself cannot form any reason for the grammaticality difference shown in (1).
- ISSN
- 0254-4474
- Language
- English
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