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Parallels are shown between change of location and certain change of state verbs. Argument reduction is proposed for the link. The GL event structure and headedness are employed to explain the polysemy of spray-verbs in Korean and Japanese. Headedness, along with extensions to the classic GL theory of event structure, allows for a novel and expressive solution to a distinction between certain motion verbs in Korean and Japanese. The alternation between Goal and Derived Theme is also treated. It advances the expressiveness of GL by incorporating the phenomenon of quantization in variable degree accomplishments (Mary loaded two tons of hay onto the truck in an hour), which is absent in GL, combined with GL’s subeventual structure. It elaborates the mechanisms at work in co-composition to derive multiple interpretations of change of state and creation predicates in Korean, thereby providing an expressive analysis of these data. The alternation of ‘fill’ in J/K is different from the English counterpart and more than simply an underspecified interpretation of the predicate, but also co-composition with the artifact object are offered. For the different behavior of enter/exit verbs in Korean and Japanese, I enrich GL’s event structure to distinguish between Implicit Processes and Explicit Processes. The latter will cover those classified as homogeneous activities, while the former those verbs of unaccusative or achievement type (‘enter’ and ‘exit’) in Japanese, that are incompatible with progressive interpretations. Event headedness is not sufficient.
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I am most grateful to Pustejovsky for his comments on this paper, which appears at the end as Review. I also thank anonymous reviewers of the GL Workshop in Geneva for their comments and the participants for their questions and comments. I benefited from our project on Semantic Structures of Korean Predicates (from 1997 to 2000 with Beommo Kang and Seungho Nam). This was partially supported by the KRF 074-AM1534 grant and the NRF 100-20090049 grant.
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In V-framed languages like Korean, V + V verbal compounds like this rather than V + preposition expressions are used and categories in (containment) and on (support) are differently categorized and instead the verb kki-ta ‘fit in tightly’ for most of the two categories are acquired by 2-year-old Korean children, according to Choi (2003).
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Lee, C. (2013). Change of Location and Change of State. In: Pustejovsky, J., Bouillon, P., Isahara, H., Kanzaki, K., Lee, C. (eds) Advances in Generative Lexicon Theory. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 46. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5189-7_13
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