Abstract
This chapter presents the lexico-semantic structure of the Korean inchoative verbs and their generative mechanism by means of the Generative Lexicon approach. The Korean inchoatives can be classified into three groups, the gradable, the semi-gradable and the ungradable one, considering their aspectual interpretation, semantic properties of their arguments and their opposition structures reflected in their event structures. Also, gradable and semi-gradable inchoatives show the generativity of the lexicon by the type coercion. The typology and the lexico-semantic structures of the Korean inchoatives in this chapter are just a starting point of further studies on a comprehensive class of other change-of-state verbs.
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