Concealed passives and the syntax and semantics of need/philyo in English and Korean

Authors

  • Rok Sim University of South Carolina
  • Stanley Dubinsky University of South Carolina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v6i1.4884

Keywords:

English need, Korean philyo, passive, concealed passive, double nominative construction

Abstract

Despite similar argument structure, the syntax of English need and Korean philyo contrasts, illuminating differences in lexical derivation and insertion of argument-taking elements. Verbs need, require, deserve, want, and bear take gerundive complements that are "understood passively" (Jesperson 1927/1954:112[9.23]) and called concealed passive constructions (CPCs) (Huddleston and Pullum 2002:1429). In this paper, we argue that in English, the gerund CPC object of need is a lexically passivized V that takes a nominalizing derivational -ing affix, whereas in Korean, the CPC object of philyo is a verbal noun, directly inserted as a complement of the verb without derivation.

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Published

2021-03-20

How to Cite

Sim, Rok, and Stanley Dubinsky. 2021. “Concealed Passives and the Syntax and Semantics of Need Philyo in English and Korean”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 6 (1): 1–8. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v6i1.4884.