University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics
Abstract
This paper argues that the [Dat-Acc] and the [Acc-Acc] orders in Korean are the representations of the postpositional dative construction and the double object construction and that their syntactic structures are asymmetric. I apply the same syntactic diagnostics (nominalization and idioms) developed for English by Bruening (2010) to the data in Korean, and discuss in a greater detail that the asymmetric properties of nominalization and idioms call for Bruening’s (2010) asymmetric analysis.
Recommended Citation
Kim, Lan
(2012)
"An Asymmetric Theory of Korean Ditransitives: Evidence from Idioms,"
University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 18
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, Article 16.
Available at:
https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol18/iss1/16