Abstract

So far, through Constructional analysis, the process of fusion of each a verb-type meaning with the ‘V+gei(給)’ construction meaning was examined in detail, and the verb types appearing in the ‘V+gei(給)’ construction are from the typical three-arguments verbs to some two-arguments verbs with ‘move’ meaning. Each a verb appearing in the ‘V+gei(給)’ construction is properly fused with the construction meaning according to its semantic characteristics, and ‘a single process’ meaning of the ‘V+gei(給)’ construction is expanded to ‘two continuous processes forming complex events’ meaning. A specific construction of a language does not have a fixed scope of use, and can be expanded in a manner acceptable to the many speakers according to the speaker’s needs. The fact that two-arguments verbs that cannot take a double object can appear in the ‘V+gei(給)’ construction reflects the speakers’ demand to express the meaning of continuous occurrences of various verb events and ‘gei(給)’ event. Just as various verbs appear in the Korean ‘V-e cwu-ta(-어 주다)’ construction to express the meaning of the process that includes a verb event and the event of giving, it is predicted that the more verbs focusing on the types that can have a ‘move’ meaning will appear in the ‘V+gei(給)’ construction and the ‘V+gei(給)’ construction will have a typological development in the future.

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