Korean Periphrastic Causative Constructions in Role and Reference Grammar: A Rejoinder to Park (1993) and Yang (1994)

Abstract

Song (Language Research 24, 583-606 (1988» puts forward an analysis of the Korean periphrastic causative constructions within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar. This analysis has recently been challenged by Park (1993) and Yang (1994). This paper evaluates both Park's and Yang's arguments against Song (1988), and concludes that they do not invalidate the conclusions of Song (1988), thereby confirming that the problem which is identified for the Interclausal Relations Hierarchy In Song (1988) still remains to be resolved.