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Transitives, causatives and passives in Korean and Japanese
Abstract
Transitives, causatives, and passives, all of which take the form “np1-nom + np2-acc/dat/by + v …”, are major construction types, but their identities or differences have been unclear. Thus, in this paper, I pursue a unified account for those structure patterns, in terms of ‘event-control’ (EC) over the root event (RE) and the argument-status of np2 in the RE. I argue that: (i) a transitive is a subject (np1) EC construction, and np2 is the internal argument of the RE; (ii) a causative is a construction of shared EC, and np2 is the external argument of the RE; (iii) a passive is a non-subject (np2) EC construction, and np2 is the external argument of the RE. Keywords: transitive; causative; passive; event-control; root event
Abstract
Transitives, causatives, and passives, all of which take the form “np1-nom + np2-acc/dat/by + v …”, are major construction types, but their identities or differences have been unclear. Thus, in this paper, I pursue a unified account for those structure patterns, in terms of ‘event-control’ (EC) over the root event (RE) and the argument-status of np2 in the RE. I argue that: (i) a transitive is a subject (np1) EC construction, and np2 is the internal argument of the RE; (ii) a causative is a construction of shared EC, and np2 is the external argument of the RE; (iii) a passive is a non-subject (np2) EC construction, and np2 is the external argument of the RE. Keywords: transitive; causative; passive; event-control; root event
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- The editors vii
- The authors ix
- Preface xi
- Introduction xiii
- A deceptive case of split-intransitivity in Basque 1
- Some argument-structure properties of ‘give’ in the languages of Europe and Northern and Central Asia 17
- Grammatical relations in a typology of agreement systems 37
- Causatives in Agul 55
- Continuity of information structuring strategies in Eastern Khanty 115
- Patterns of asymmetry in argument structure across languages 133
- Topic marking and the construction of narrative in Xibe 151
- On the hierarchy of structural convergence in the Amdo Sprachbund 177
- Pyramids of spatial relators in Northeastern Turkic and its neighbors 191
- What’s in the head of head-marking languages? 211
- Transitives, causatives and passives in Korean and Japanese 241
- Core argument patterns and deep genetic relations 257
- Three takes on grammatical relations 295
- On aspect, aspectual domain and quantification in Finnish and Udmurt 325
- Indexes 355
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- The editors vii
- The authors ix
- Preface xi
- Introduction xiii
- A deceptive case of split-intransitivity in Basque 1
- Some argument-structure properties of ‘give’ in the languages of Europe and Northern and Central Asia 17
- Grammatical relations in a typology of agreement systems 37
- Causatives in Agul 55
- Continuity of information structuring strategies in Eastern Khanty 115
- Patterns of asymmetry in argument structure across languages 133
- Topic marking and the construction of narrative in Xibe 151
- On the hierarchy of structural convergence in the Amdo Sprachbund 177
- Pyramids of spatial relators in Northeastern Turkic and its neighbors 191
- What’s in the head of head-marking languages? 211
- Transitives, causatives and passives in Korean and Japanese 241
- Core argument patterns and deep genetic relations 257
- Three takes on grammatical relations 295
- On aspect, aspectual domain and quantification in Finnish and Udmurt 325
- Indexes 355
