술어의 통사의미 자질과 대격

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Lee, Jong Kun. 2000. Syntactic and Semantic Features of the Predicate and Accusative Case. Journal of the Linguistic Association of Korea, 8(3), 183-202. The main purpose of this paper is to give a new account for what kind of predicate can license accusative case in Korean. Previous approaches to this issue claim that predicates can license accusative case to their complement when they have some specific semantic feature such as [-stative) or when they involve a certain pair of related semantic notions (determinant and determinee). These previous approaches, however, pose serious empirical problems since there is a set of state predicates which can license accusative case even though they do not have these required semantic features. In this paper, a new analysis will be given for this problem, based not on a single semantic feature, but on a syntactic feature and lexical case licensing. In addition, to account for which argument of an accusative-case licensing predicate gets to bear accusative case, the present study will introduce a new way of argument selection in Korean, which is based on a set of lexical rules. (Mokpo National University)