Book contents
- Korean
- Korean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Background
- Part II Language Structure
- 4 Phonology and Phonetics
- 5 Morphology
- 6 Morphosyntax: Case, Grammatical Relations, and Nominalization
- 7 Syntax
- 8 Syntax–Semantics Interface
- Part III Language in Context
- Index
- References
7 - Syntax
from Part II - Language Structure
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2019
Book contents
- Korean
- Korean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Background
- Part II Language Structure
- 4 Phonology and Phonetics
- 5 Morphology
- 6 Morphosyntax: Case, Grammatical Relations, and Nominalization
- 7 Syntax
- 8 Syntax–Semantics Interface
- Part III Language in Context
- Index
- References
Summary
Chapter 7 deals with syntax proper. In this chapter, we discuss Category 2 (verbal and adjectival) formation, basic sentence structure, and the passive and causative patterns. We describe five basic patterns of predication: verbal predicates, adjectival predicates, nominal (copular) predicates, auxiliaries, and irregular predicates. We begin with basic sentence patterns, then introduce “scrambling” phenomena (that is, variations in word order), clausal embedding, and other complex sentence patterns. For both passive and causative constructions, we describe the basic shape of the patterns, the three-way distinction of lexical, morphological, and syntactic passives and causatives, and major syntactic characteristics of each. As with lexical passives, lexical causatives are underived. Morphological causatives involve seven allomorphs, four homophonous with the suffixes of the morphological passive. We survey the four patterns of syntactic causatives, and explain the major syntactic differences between morphological and syntactic causatives. We show that from an areal/typological perspective, Korean fits the North Asian pattern of primarily causativizing (transitivizing) languages.
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