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This paper aims to account for direct combination of an entity type noun with the verb HA- ‘do’ (e.g. piano-rul ha- ‘piano-ACC do’) in Korean, based on Generative Lexicon Theory (Pustejovsky 1995). The verb HA- ‘do’ coerces some entity type nouns (e.g. pap ‘boiled rice’) into an event type one by virtue of the qualia of the noun. Arguing type coercion based on qualia in Korean, this paper extended the qualia of GL by adding engagement telic quale. We further point out that qualia cannot be a warehouse of pragmatic information. Qualia are composed of necessary information to explain lexical meaning and co-occurrence constraints. Type coercion of the verb HA- ‘do’ has certain constraints related with the qualia of coerced nouns. The entity type nouns without direct telic quale cannot combine with HA- ‘do’. Natural type nouns are not coerced by HA- ‘do’. Type coercion by HA- ‘do’ does not have aspectual constraint. Finally, we seriously consider co-composition as an alternative to type coercion for the crucial operation of type shift.
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Notes
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Thematic role alternation between agent and instrument in Korean is not as much natural as that of English. In Korean, thematic role alternation like (24) tends to be possible through personification of instrument.
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We do not exclude the possibility that agentive qualia are subdivided into more than two types.
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Pustejovsky (2001) suggests the four kinds of type coercion. Those are Subtyping, Evaluative Predicates, Natural Coercion, and Imposed Telic. If we follow Pustejovsky (2001), type coercion by the verb ha- ‘do’ is a kind of Imposed Telic like begin in English because ha- coerces type shifting of an entity type noun based on telic quale of the noun. However, we should consider type coercion based on agentive quale of the noun.
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Im, S., Lee, C. (2013). Combination of the Verb Ha- ‘Do’ and Entity Type Nouns in Korean: A Generative Lexicon Approach. 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_9
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