The syntax and semantics of causative constructions in Korean. (Volumes I and II)

The aim of this dissertation is twofold. One goal is a typology of causatives and the other is a syntactic and semantic analysis of causative constructions in Korean.; Chapter 2 provides a description of the formal types of causatives in Korean, and examines whether all types of causatives satisfy the entailment relationship.; Chapter 3 includes a criticism of the lexical mapping theory given in Alsina (1992), who has proposed an account of how arguments of the lower predicate are syntactically realized in Chichewa causative constructions. I show that causative constructions in some other languages cannot be accounted for by the lexical mapping theory.; Chapter 4 gets down to the question of how the arguments of the caused event are realized syntactically in various languages. I argue that whether a productive morphological causative construction is complex or simplex underlyingly should be answered for each language individually, and not universally. Chapter 4 also includes a digression into double accusative constructions in Korean.; Chapter 5 discusses the morphological, syntactic and logico-semantic aspects of morphological causative constructions in Korean. I adopt an intermediate approach, which allows some morphological causatives to be logico-semantically decomposed.; Chapter 6 argues that the syntactic structure of the analytic causative construction in Korean is monoclausal with a VP complement embedded when the causee is in the dative or in the accusative case. With regard to the contention that the embedded verb and the analytic causative form a complex predicate, I provide alternative explanations, which are semantically and functionally based.; Chapter 7 classifies different types of ha-ta predicates (i.e., light verbs). It also includes morphological, syntactic and logico-semantic analyses of ha-ta constructions. Based on the classification of ha-ta predicates, I provide a semantic explanation as to why only certain ha-ta predicates have a sikhi-ta causative counterpart, and provide structural descriptions and lexical entries of sikhi-ta causatives.; In chapter 8, I describe semantico-pragmatic aspects of the indirect passive construction in Korean, and argue that the construction is base-generated, and not derived by a movement rule.