A Typological Study of Anticausative, Middle and Medio-Passive Constructions

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Jae Min Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제81호, 65~89쪽, 전체 25쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2014.12.01

영문 초록

This paper aims to suggest Middle and Medio-passive categories in Korean with cross-linguistic data. K. Kim(2009) argues that there are three kinds of non-active Voice categories in Korean: I-inchoatives, Zero inchoatives and Passives. I, however, argue that I-inchoative and Zero inchoative show morphological, distributional and semantic differences, and thus they should be respectively categorized into Middle and Anticausative. The so-called –imorpheme is regarded traditionally as passive morpheme, but I show that it is not just a passive but Non-active Voice morpheme in Korean. I have also argued that Medio-passive constructions should be assumed in Korean, because cross-linguistically they show distributional and semantic differences from middles and passives. An Instrumental phrase and an Agent phrase or an Agent phrase and‘by itself’can appear together in the medio-passives, and semantically they can have middle interpretation too.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Anticausatives and Middles as Separate Constructions

3. Distinguishing the Medio-Passive from the Passive and the Middle

4. Conclusions

References

키워드

Middle Inchoative Anticausative Medio-Passive Passive Non-active Causative-Anticausative alternation