When Events Meet Phrase Structure: Perception Verb ComplementsWhen Events Meet Phrase Structure: Perception Verb Complements
- Other Titles
- When Events Meet Phrase Structure: Perception Verb Complements
- Authors
- 이상근
- Issue Date
- 2008
- Publisher
- 경희대학교 언어정보연구소
- Keywords
- events; perception verb complements; head-internal relative clauses; aspect phrase; referentiality
- Citation
- 언어연구, v.25, no.1, pp.39 - 60
- Indexed
- KCI
OTHER
- Journal Title
- 언어연구
- Volume
- 25
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 39
- End Page
- 60
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/124270
- DOI
- 10.17250/khisli.25.1.200806.003
- ISSN
- 1229-1374
- Abstract
- Syntacticians have begun to take note of the emerging
role of events in the mapping from lexical semantics to syntax ever since Davidson
(1967) laid out a theory involving action (or event) expressions by defining events as
primitive individuals. Extensional verbs like see become central in this respect since
they express relations between individuals and events. In this paper, I reexamine the
internal structure of Korean perception verb complements (PVCs) to reveal how the
referential type of events s-selected by the extensional verb see is arranged in the syntax.
I propose that the syntactic category, VP, must be licensed by the aspectual head, Aspect,
to get the event argument to be interpreted as referential. This study eventually contributes
to a better understanding on how the semantic concept of events is encoded in phrase
structure. (Korea University)
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