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- Title
Inalienable possession construction and passive markers inducing an idiomatic interpretation.
- Authors
Soo-Hwan Lee; Doo-Won Lee
- Abstract
When a genitive marker, instead of an accusative or a nominative marker, is realized with the first nominal in a multiple case marking (MCM) construction that is relevant to the inalienable possessive structures in Korean, the given sentence may receive an idiomatic interpretation. The nominative possessum within MCM constructions may participate in either preserving or triggering idiomatic interpretations, whereas the accusative possessum may only participate in preserving idiomatic meanings and not in triggering them. With consideration to MCM constructions and passivization which enable idiomatic interpretations to be preserved or triggered compositionally in syntax, we argue that the passive verbal ending (a/e) ci qualifies as the strongest passive marker whereas the overt passive morpheme i/hi/li/ki is the next strongest, and the null passive morpheme ∅PASS the weakest. Hence, we propose that at least within idiomatic domains the null passive morpheme should be regarded as a quasi-passive morpheme which is remarkably different from the overt passive morpheme i/hi/li/ki or the passive verbal ending (a/e) ci.
- Subjects
IDIOMS; KOREAN language; ACCUSATIVE case (Grammar); POSSESSIVES (Grammar); SYNTAX (Grammar); MORPHEMICS
- Publication
Linguistic Research, 2017, Vol 34, Issue 3, p239
- ISSN
1229-1374
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17250/khisli.34.3.201712.003