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Is ita a Syntactic Affix?

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ABSTRACT

Based on the required criteria for an analysis of ita construction suggested in Si (2006), this paper aims to show that the seemingly paradoxical properties of ita construction can be accounted for more adequately under the hypothesis that ita is an unaccusative verb which takes a small clause as it's complement (Lee (2002)) than under the hypotheses that ita is a simple verb (Um (1989, 1993)) or that ita is a syntactic affix (Si (1993, 1994, 1995)). Arguments are concentrated on falsifying the widely spread assumption that the word preceding ita is a noun or a noun phrase. And this paper also suggests that the idiosyncratic properties of the stative hata construction can be easily explicated under the hypothesis that stative hata is also an unaccusative verb which takes a small clause its complement.

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