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A Unified analysis of existentials and psych‐constructions in Korean as pseudo‐transitives
Author(s) -
Kim Kyumin
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
studia linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-9582
pISSN - 0039-3193
DOI - 10.1111/stul.12037
Subject(s) - transitive relation , existentialism , categorical variable , linguistics , pure mathematics , mathematics , computer science , algebra over a field , philosophy , combinatorics , epistemology , statistics
This paper compares the transitivity of existential and psych‐constructions in Korean to canonical transitives and intransitives. It is shown that these constructions are neither transitives nor intransitives. This paper argues that they can be unified as pseudo‐transitives (i.e., somewhere between transitives and intransitives) and provides a structural analysis for pseudo‐transitives using Appl. Pseudo‐transitives provide support for the theory that transitivity is a continuum, and not categorical (Hopper & Thompson 1980).