"Exceptional" Case-Marking and Resultative Constructions
"Exceptional" Case-Marking and Resultative Constructions
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2005-10-10
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Hong, Soo-Min
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Hornstein, Norbert
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In this thesis, I present evidence that structural Case in Korean is not absolutely semantically inert. It can have a focus flavor in some contexts, for example, stacked Case and Case attached to an adverb/adverbial and a verb. This sort of Case feature may not be an embarrassment for the good design of language.
I discuss the Resultative Construction in a derivational approach. We compare the Resultative Construction between English and Korean in pursuit of finding out the underlying cause for differences between the two languages.