Light verb constructions have been treated as a relevant linguistic topic because they show unique characteristics that are not found in other verb constructions in Korean. Thus, previous studies are mainly focused on specific characteristics: (i) the relationship between light verbs and v and (ii) the affixation of accusative case particles. However, in this thesis, I examine more important issues related to light verb constructions in Korean: (i) how light verb constructions can works as predicates in clauses, (ii) the nature of the relationship between the complement and the light verb in light verb constructions, and (iii) where the complement and the light verb are present in the surface structure in Korean. Operating under the assumption that the light verb construction is a way of presenting a predicative type similar to lexical verbs or adjectives in Korean, I claim that (i) the lexical-semantic and syntactic information of all predicates, including light verb constructions, is determined in the “lexical conceptual structure” (e.g., Levin & Rappaport 1998), (ii) the conceptual categories in the lexical conceptual structure become the lexical items in the lexicon differently in light verb constructions than in lexical verb constructions, and (iii) the light verb construction is built by incorporation which is similar to semantic noun incorporation (e.g., Dayal 2010). In addition, in this thesis I will present new characteristics of light verb constructions in Korean: (i) the function of each component in the light verb construction such as the modifier and the modified item, (ii) the relationship between components in the light verb construction (i.e., s-selection), (iii) the existence of a functional projection between two components (i.e., Event Phrase), and (iv) the generation of the negation particle an ‘not’ under the head of vP.

Light verb constructions have been treated as a relevant linguistic topic because they show unique characteristics that are not found in other verb constructions in Korean. Thus, previous studies are mainly focused on specific characteristics: (i) the relationship between light verbs and v and (ii) the affixation of accusative case particles. However, in this thesis, I examine more important issues related to light verb constructions in Korean: (i) how light verb constructions can works as predicates in clauses, (ii) the nature of the relationship between the complement and the light verb in light verb constructions, and (iii) where the complement and the light verb are present in the surface structure in Korean. Operating under the assumption that the light verb construction is a way of presenting a predicative type similar to lexical verbs or adjectives in Korean, I claim that (i) the lexical-semantic and syntactic information of all predicates, including light verb constructions, is determined in the “lexical conceptual structure” (e.g., Levin & Rappaport 1998), (ii) the conceptual categories in the lexical conceptual structure become the lexical items in the lexicon differently in light verb constructions than in lexical verb constructions, and (iii) the light verb construction is built by incorporation which is similar to semantic noun incorporation (e.g., Dayal 2010). In addition, in this thesis I will present new characteristics of light verb constructions in Korean: (i) the function of each component in the light verb construction such as the modifier and the modified item, (ii) the relationship between components in the light verb construction (i.e., s-selection), (iii) the existence of a functional projection between two components (i.e., Event Phrase), and (iv) the generation of the negation particle an ‘not’ under the head of vP.

published_or_final_version / Language Studies / Master / Master of Arts

No abstract available. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2006.

The main aim of this thesis is to trace the development of four different constructions involving auxiliaries and participles through the history of the Spanish language. These constructions are the perfect construction expressed by haber ‘have’ + past participle (PTCP), the verbal passive expressed by ser ‘be’ + PTCP, the adjectival passive expressed by estar ‘be.LOC’ + PTCP and the stative possessive expressed by tener ‘tener.POSS’ + PTCP. Specifically, in this thesis I explore changes in the interpretations of these periphrases, based both on a qualitative and quantitative analysis of corpus data. I argue that these constructions have undergone a regularization change, and that this change was mainly motivated by the competition between these participial constructions for the same interpretations. In order to test these ideas empirically, I have compiled a large diachronic corpus of Spanish from the 12th to the 20th century, consisting of more than 39 million words and composed of texts from different sources. This corpus has been automatically lemmatised and annotated with fine-grained morphosyntactic tags. In order to do this I have adapted an existing open-source linguistic analyzer (FreeLing) to allow for the efficient linguistic annotation of the oldest texts in the corpus. / El principal objetivo de esta tesis es trazar el desarrollo de cuatro construcciones de participio, formadas por auxiliares y participios en la historia del espa˜nol. Estas construcciones son la construcci´on de perfecto, expresada por haber + participio pasado (PTCP), la pasiva verbal expresada por ser + PTCP, la pasiva adjetival expresada por estar + PTCP y la estativa posesiva expresada por tener + PTCP. Concretamente, en esta tesis exploro los cambios en las interpretaciones de estas per´ıfrasis, bas´andome en el an´alisis cualitativo y cuantitativo de datos de corpus. Defiendo que estas construcciones han sufrido un cambio de regularizaci ´on, y que la motivaci´on principal para este cambio es la competici´on entre estas construcciones de participio para expresar las mismas interpretaciones. Para probar estas ideas emp´ıricamente, he compilado un corpus diacr´onico del espa˜nol, con textos de los siglos XII al XX, que est´a formado por m´as de 39 millones de palabras y compuesto por documentos de diferentes fuentes. Este corpus ha sido lematizado y anotado con etiquetas morfosint´acticas. Para realizar esto, he utilizado una herramienta ya existente de an´alisis ling¨u´ıstico (FreeLing), que he adaptado previamente para poder anotar de manera eficiente los documentos m´as antiguos que forman este corpus.

Zugl.: Queensland, Univ., Diss., 2005

Zugl.: Göttingen, Univ., Diss., 2002

Zugl.: Univ. of Queensland, Diss., 2005

Zugl.: München, Universiẗat, Diss., 2006.

Stuttgart, Univ., Fakultät Philosophie, Magisterarb., 1994.