Apparent Passivization of Unaccusative Ha-ta Verbs in Korean

• 발행기관: 경희대학교 언어정보연구소
• 저자명: Keon Soo Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『언어연구』제17권, 137~174쪽, 전체 38쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 1999.12.30

영문 초록

The 1-Advancement Exclusiveness Law (Perlmutter & Postal (1984)) predicts that where the initial 2 of an initially unaccusative clause is final 1, other advancements to 1 will not be possible. However, contrary to the prediction of 1-Advancement Exclusiveness Law, the unaccusative ha-ta verbs in Korean permit a passive clause whereas unergative ha-ta verbs do not. The purpose of this paper explicates such an apparent counter-example to the interaction of the 1-Advancement Exclusiveness Law with the Unaccusative Hypothesis (Perlmutter & Postal (1984)). First, this paper argues that the distinction between unergatives and unaccusatives also exists among the intransitive ha-ta verbs in Korean. Secondly, this papers shows that the 1-Advancement Exclusiveness law is also valid with regard to the intransitive ha-ta verbs in Korean. Thirdly, this paper argues that the passivization of unaccusative ha-ta verbs is an inevitable consequence which is attributed to the biclausal structure of intransitive ha-ta verbs.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Two Types of Intransitive Ha-ta Verbs

3. Proposal: Biclausal Analysis

4. Previous Analyses

5. Justification of the Biclausal Analysis

6. Conclusion

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