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Anticausative Feature of ‘Passive-By itself’ Construction in Korean.

Baek Joung-Hwoa 1

1한양대학교

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ABSTRACT

The aim of the study is to examine similarities and differences of the ‘passive-by itself’ construction that expressed ‘being damaged’ by spontaneous situation among several types of Korean passive construction and anticausative construction that mentioned in language typology, to get to know ‘passive-by itself’ construction has anticausative feature. Korean ‘passive-by itself’ construction has a lot in common morphologically․syntactically․semantically with anticausative construction of Indo-European, it unites in points that there is particularly no agent in sentence and it shows that event which happened spontaneously. Unlike anticausative construction ; however, cannot imply agent syntactically and semantically, there is able to ambiguous constructions that imply agent in Korean ‘passive-by itself’ construction. This study shows the reason why Korean ‘passive-by itself’ construction is expressed by passive verb and anticausative construction of Indo-European is expressed by reflexive. In addition, this study distinguished with ‘passive-by itself’ construction by applying ambiguous construction. There are a lot of ambiguous construction in Korean. When we make sentences that depend on context, we have to consider whether the agent should be places or not in order to subject constraint in connection with animacy hierarchy. Furthermore, referring to semantic map and semantic model of Hapelmath(1987), this study suggests meaning of Korean passive verb and Indo-European reflexive. While Indo-European reflexive has each meaning by sequential derivation, Korean passive verb shows phenomenon that meaning changed according to cause material each in a ’passive’ category.

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