An Empirical Study of Korean Adjectival Predicates that License Double Nominative Constructions

• Published in: Language and linguistics (Taipei) Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 397 - 429
• Main Author: Nam, Jeesun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.04.2015; Academia Sinica, Institute of Linguistics; Sage publishing, Association with Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• Subjects: Adjectives; Argument Structure; Complements; Computation and Language; Computer Science; Discourse analysis; Document and Text Processing; Grammar; Humanities and Social Sciences; Korean; Korean language; Licensing; Linguistics; Predicate; Semantics; Syntactic Structures; Syntax Semantics Relationship; Chicago Illinois; discourse effect; adjective; complement type; double nominative; conversion; Two-Subject Assumption; Adjective; One-Subject Assumption; Double nominative; Korean; Nominative Conversion; Lexicon-Grammar

Despite the numerous studies proposed to explain double nominative constructions (DNCs) in Korean, empirical approaches to the predicate types that license their essential complements for conversion into nominatives have attracted little attention from scholars. However, given that, from syntactic a...