On the inchoative –ci with verbs in Korean

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This paper argues that –ci with a verbal root is neither an anticausative morpheme nor a passive morpheme, but the head of a directed motion construction. Based on previous works, such as *** (****), Zubizarreta and Oh (2007), *** and *** (****), a.o., but slightly diverging from them, this paper further argues that –ci takes a predication relation headed by the r(elator) (Den Dikken 2006), where the verbal root appears as a result state, and the DMC headed by –ci should involve a causal chain with the result state denoted by the verval root. This explains why –ci is not compatible with adverbs such as kyeysok ‘continuously’ and susulo ‘by itself’, and why –ci sometimes carries the possibility modal meaning.

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