‘-게 하-’ 구문의 통사적 지위 = The syntactic status of ‘-key ha-’ construction in Korean

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper clarifies whether the ‘-key ha-’ construction constitutes a unified structure or multiple distinct constructions, what mechanisms underlie its use as a causative construction, the nature of the verb ‘ha-’ in the causative, and what the overall syntactic structure of this construction entails.
The paper concludes that the ‘-key ha-’ construction should be classified as causative or non-causative. The non-causative constructions can be further classified as (1) types where the subject of the embedded clause appears in the nominative case and does not imply a resulting state, (2) types with a noun phrase marked by ‘eykey’ interpreted as the target of directive action, and (3) types where certain adjective predicates are used.
As a causative construction, the ‘-key ha-’ construction has a monoclausal structure in which the result-marking ‘-key’ predicate and the cause-indicating verb ‘ha-’ are reanalyzed to form a compound predicate. This reanalysis is achieved through (1) a shift in grammatical relations where the subject of the affected clause changes from the nominative to the accusative case, (2) a categorical change in ‘ha-’ from a pro-verb to a light verb, and (3) reinforcement of syntactic cohesion with semantic emphasis shifting from ‘ha-’ to the predicate marked by ‘-key’. As a result of this realization, the ‘-key’ predicate functions as a predicative noun phrase.