Abstract
Quite a few prior studies have classified the Korean resultative constructions into predicative resultatives and clausal resultatives. However, the current study argues that all the resultative constructions with X-key belong to the category of clausal resultative construction. This implies that X-key forms a fully saturated clause (not object control), in which the nominative subject of the secondary predicate can be omitted since Korean is a pro-drop language. We present corpus data and experimental results to reveal the existence of pro-drop in the resultative constructions. The linguistic findings are also consistent with the prediction of the pro-drop analysis: various kinds of resultative predicates can appear in the resultative constructions.
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