Open AccessObject control in Korean: obligatory vs. non-obligatory control
Author(s) -
Maria Polinsky
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
zas papers in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1435-9588
DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.47.2007.349
Subject(s) - scrambling , section (typography) , object (grammar) , control (management) , complement (music) , contrast (vision) , computer science , linguistics , controller (irrigation) , artificial intelligence , algorithm , philosophy , complementation , biology , agronomy , gene , phenotype , operating system , biochemistry , chemistry
In this paper, I examine two object control constructions in Korean which differ only in the surface word order: in one of the constructions, the control complement follows the controller, but in the other, precedes it. I argue that the contrast between these constructions cannot be attributed to scrambling. The difference between these constructions can only be captured if one of them is analyzed as OC, and the other as instantiating NOC. Section 2 presents the relevant constructions and their earlier analyses available in the literature; section 3 presents a detailed discussion of differences between the two object control constructions. My proposal for analyzing these constructions is presented in section 4. Section 5 introduces two outstanding questions related to the proposed structures: the status of scrambling in Korean and the analysis of the inverse control construction. Conclusions and general discussion follow in section 6.