한국어 형용사와 비대격

Abstract

The Korean adjectives are often indistinguishable from verbs in the viewpoint of the morphological and syntactic criterion which tell adjectives from verbs, so the categorial identity of the Korean adjectives have been questioned. In this results, the Korean adjectives are often regarded as unaccusative predicates which is a kind of verb. But it must be given a careful consideration to the deciding whether the Korean adjectives are unaccusative predicates or not. First, the adjectives, so called verby adjectives, which are indistinguishable from verbs dont reveal the unaccusativity. Second, If the adjectives which reveal some characteristics of unacuusativity satisfy the general criterion of adjective-classification, those adjectives must be regarded as adjectives not unaccusative predicates. Third, diagnostics have been posited for unaccusativity in Korean is not right in the stream of the unaccusativity discussion since the Perlmutter(1978)s argument. Fourth, the criterion which tell adjectives from verbs must be reconsidered with flexibility in the viewpoint of degrees, for example, typical adjectives and non-typical adjectives.