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CAUSE as the Deep Semantic Source of So-called Causative and Passive : With Special Reference to the Metaphorical Interpretation of the -i Morpheme in Korean
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- Issue Date
- 1982
- Publisher
- 서울대학교 언어교육원
- Citation
- 어학연구, Vol.18 No.1, pp. 171-195
- Abstract
- o. Traditionally the Korean verb poi (.!I!.. 014) has been regarded to be syntactically
ambivalent , in that it functions as an intransitive verb as in CIa) and also as a transitive
"causative" verb as in (1b).¹
(1) a. na-nun san- i po- i- n- tao
I -Top hill-SM see C Pres SM
'I see a hill.'
b. yeng-i-ka na-eykey kkotsin- ul po -i -ess-ta.
yeng-i-SM 1-10 flowery shoes-DO see C Pst-SE
'Yeng- i showed me flowery shoes!
(Top=Topic Marker, SM=Subject Marker, C=CAUSE², Pres=Present,.
Mod=Modality, SE=Sentence Ending, 1O=lndirect Object, DO=Direct.
Object, Pst=Past)
On the other hand, Korean has the simple verb po (보다) which IS undisputably a transitive verb. See (2a).
(2) a . nay-ka kkotsin -ul po -n -tao
I -SM flowery shoes-DO see Pres SE
'I see flowery shoes.'
b. *yeng-i-ka na-eykey kkotsin -ul po –n -ta.
yeng-i-SM I -IO flowery shoes-DO see-Pres -SE
'*Yeng-i sees me flowery shoes!
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- 0254-4474
- Language
- English
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