Abstract
The ultimate goal of this article is to show that the Korean communication verb malhata ‘say’ allows obligatory control (OC) and nonobligatory control (NOC). This article supports the OC hypothesis that communication verbs permit obligatory control (Manzini, 1983; Koster, 1984; Vanden Wyngaerd, 1994; Jakendoff and Culicover, 2003; Landau, 2000, 2013, 2020) and the NOC hypothesis that they induce nonobligatory control (Bresnan, 1982; Bouchard, 1984; Huang, 1989; Sag and Pollard, 1991; Dalrymple, 2001; Landau, 2020). A major point to note is that the communication verb malhata ‘say’ along with predicates in the untensed clause permits speech act control. That is, PRO in Korean can be controlled by the speaker or listener. A further point to note is that obligatory control, nonobligatory control, and speech act control are captured by the recovery system of PRO (Kang, 2018). This article demonstrates that the semantics of the relevant predicates recovers PRO.
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