This paper aims to develop a contrastive analysis between causative constructions in Korean language and Chinese language that have different language style. This paper mostly analyzes the characteristics of each causative constructions in Korean and ...
This paper aims to develop a contrastive analysis between causative constructions in Korean language and Chinese language that have different language style. This paper mostly analyzes the characteristics of each causative constructions in Korean and Chinese and contrasts each of the causative constructions in both languages using syntactic and semantic analysis. Korean language and Chinese language have ways to express causation, but differ in a method of realizing it, which is analyzed by dividing the causative expression of Korean language into morphological causatives, lexical causatives, and analytic causatives and by dividing the causative expression of Chinese language into lexical causatives and analytic causatives. Whereas Korean morphological causatives are formed by ``root+suffixes(``-i-``, ``-hi-``, ``-li-``, ``-gi-``, ``-u-``, ``-gu-``, ``-chu-``)``, in Chinese language morphological causatives are not exist. Causatives in Chinese are mostly formed by lexical corporation ``root+root`` which is similar to Korean morphological causative. In forming causative sentences, both languages have similar patterns such as ``case movement`` and ``adding a subject argument``, but there is a slight difference between the both. Whereas in Korean language causee is expressed by case markers ``-ga/-i``, ``-eul/-reul``, ``-ege``, ``-eurohayeogeum``, in Chinese language grammatical relation is formed by context, word order, and character of verb, as there is no overt case marker. In contrastive analysis of directiveness of causatives, in Korean language short form causatives express the meaning of directive causatives, long form causatives and the causative construction formed by ``-sikida`` express the meaning of indirective causatives, while in Chinese language, lexical causatives are only express the meaning of directive causatives, analytic causatives can express the meanings of directive causatives and indirective causatives, ``shi(使), jiao(叫), rang (孃)`` are related with indirective causatives, and ``gei(給)`` is related with indirective causatives.