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The Lexico-semantic Strcutures for Two Kinds of Theme-movement Verbs: Alternation Type vs. Non- Alternation Type

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2005, 17(), pp.207-229
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

김윤신 1

1서울대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This paper aims to examine two types of the Korean Theme-Movement Verbs, alternation type and non-alternation type. This paper also tries to explain their lexico-semantic structures applying the Generative Lexicon Theory (Pustejovsky, 1995) and show the differences between alternation type and non-alternation type of the Korean Theme-movement verbs in the locative alternation. As for 'thematization', alternations type has the thematized figure and the thematized ground, while non- alternation type has only one theme as its figure. Only on the logical concept of alternation type, the change-of-state in its ground entails the change-of-location of its figure. In terms of Event Structure, alternation type underspecifies its headedness, but non-alternation one specifies its initial process subevent as its headed event. In the case of Argument Structure, the ground of alternation type is determined as its default arguments, and the figure of non-alternation as its default one, respectively has specifies its initial process subevent as its headed event. In conclusion, the realized patterns of the locative alternation depend on the lexical-semantic structures and the entailment relation of logical concept in the Korean Theme-Movement Verbs.

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