A Fine-Grained Distinction of Dative-Marking Causative Verbs in Korean: An ERP Study

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: 최기용(Kiyong Choi) 정원일(Wonil Chung) 박명관(Myung-Kwan Park)
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제107호, 43~71쪽, 전체 29쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2020.09.25

영문 초록

This paper investigates three types of dative-marking causative verbs in Korean: caused motion verbs, adversative passive verbs, and periphrastic causative verbs that unmarkedly select for dative- particled NP. Caused motion verbs arguably entertain lexically-introduced causative features, adversative passives involve lexico-syntactically oriented causative and passive morpheme(s), periphrastic causative verbs involve a syntactically active causative component. We examined the processing aspects of these three types of verbs, adopting the event-related potential (ERP) paradigm of superior temporal resolution. We crucially employed the dative/ ACC alternation well-known in Korean syntax to come up with the potentially anomalous or marked experimental conditions. The results are: motion verbs and adversative passive verbs with ACC NP, relative to ones with DAT NP, recorded the bi-phasic ERP components: N400 and reduced P600. On the other hand, periphrastic causative verbs with ACC NP, compared to ones with DAT NP, registered only reduced P600. Taken together, only the syntactically-active causative component licences the ACC Case on the NP whose dative particle is dropped. Motion verbs and adversative passive verbs are taken to fail to complete semantic integration with the preceding ACC NP, therefore attempting to undergo syntactic reanalysis.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Experiment

3. Discussion

4. Conclusion

References

키워드

caused motion ditransitives adversative passives periphrastic causatives ERP semantic integration syntactic reanalysis