Abstract
Languages like Korean show that certain predicates with a body part noun function as reflexive predicates. Thus, an analysis employing null SE with complex predicate formation was proposed. However, this null SE analysis turns out to be unsatisfactory and an alternative analysis is proposed in this paper. Observing that the possessor of body part noun requires a c-commanding antecedent in the binding domain. Assuming that PRO occupies the specifier position of body part nouns, the presence of the two distinctive possessor interpretations is accounted for, since PRO is ambiguous between anaphoric and pronominal. This paper further demonstrates that predicates with a body part noun denoting self-action undergo the revised lexical reflexivization operation which turns PRO into an unsaturated argument, and thus become inherently reflexive predicates.
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