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Kang, Sang-Gu. (2019). Manner-result complementarity and the serial verb construction in Korean. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 27(2), 109-129. The aim of this paper is two-fold. The first is to argue against the proposal that the manner-result complementarity espoused by Levin and Rappaport Hovav (2013) hold in Korean. While Levin and Rappaport Hovav have long been claiming that the two semantic components are not lexicalized by a single verb, Beavers and Koontz-Garboden (2017) object that some verbs, such as climb, are found to entail both manner and result information. In line with Beaver and Koontz-Garboden's analysis of climb, it is shown that the Korean verb kwulu 'roll' has both manner and result components in it. The second aim is to argue against the thesis that the notions 'manner' and 'result' play a crucial role in the Korean serial verb construction, and to provide an alternative to the thesis. To this end, it considers a major subset of serial verb constructions in Korean and seeks to identify the semantic properties of the construction by examining the behavior of its constituent verbs, regardless of whether it describes a motion event or not. It proposes a structural constraint on the relation between the two verbs employed in the construction: namely, that the subevent denoted by the first verb serves as a sufficient condition for a necessary condition for the subevent denoted by the second verb.

# manner # result # serial verb construction # scale # scalar change # SUIN # causation

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