The purpose of this study is to examine the category of causative verb in Korean. The notion of causative is that the causer operates on causee directly or indirectly and makes the causee come into a result. We can say that the grammatical causative...
The purpose of this study is to examine the category of causative verb in Korean. The notion of causative is that the causer operates on causee directly or indirectly and makes the causee come into a result. We can say that the grammatical causative is grammatical category to re-alize the causative. Also, causative verb is derived verb combined with causative suffix at the root of declinable word and has declarative function which causer makes the causee come into a result by operating directly or indirectly.
We looked into category of causative verb in the view of morphological, syntactic, semantic. As a result, causative verb in Korean is the morphologically combined with causative suffix '-i-, -hi-, -li-, -ki-, -u-, -ku-, -chu-' at the root of declinable word, and syntactically must keep the case form in addition to the relationship with main verb in meaning.