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An Analysis of Morphological Causative Construction in Korean
Focusing on Rules and Restriction

Hema
Korean language Guest Lecturer at
University of Delhi

Abstract

Many scholars have discussed on the causative construction in Korean. However, there are certain gaps and unsolved issues in those studies which this study attempts to fill in this study. This study discusses the classification and realization of Korean causative. This study investigates the practical usage of causative verbs in Korean languages and also presents the systematic framework of Korean causative, so that a person (especially who does not have a linguistic background) may understand causative verb construction easily. Even though Korean causative construction is quite developed, but it’s not free from the restriction, so this study also discusses the limitations of the Korean morphological causative verb construction.

Keywords: causative verb, case marker, Korean, causer, cause, learner

1. Introduction

In Korean language, morphological causative construction is known to be a difficult target for Korean language learners to learn, because rules are quite irregular, as a Korean language instructor in University of Delhi from last few years, it has been noticed that India Korean language learners face difficulties while expressing Korean causative. Despite of having many rules, there are also many restrictions. In Korean, there are some verbs which can’t be causativized by attaching suffixes to the verb stem. Jae Jung-son (2001:286,287) has mentioned that in causative construction “causer is agent who act directly on the causee, if the causee is affected directly by the causer’s action, it is marked by accusative case, if it is affected least (less) by the causer’s action, the causee is marked with dative case”. Even though some scholars have discussed about the realization of case marking in Korean causative, hene there are a few limitations in respect to case marking which this study going to discusses, hence in the beginning stage of learning Korean, many language learners consider learning causatives forms the most challenging.

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Hema
Korean language Guest Lecturer at University of Delhi
Ph.D. candidate at Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi

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