한국어에 서술절이 존재하는가?

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Whether Korean has a clausal predicate or not has been a much debated issue in Korean syntax. The main purpose of this paper is to show that clausal predicates exist in Korean. This claim is based on discussion of three issues: 1) whether recent previous studies arguing against the existence of clausal predicates are persuasive enough, 2) whether the traditional understanding of the notion of grammatical function/relation is valid, and 3) what idioms and multi-word expressions in Korean tell us about the (non-)existence of clausal predicates. It will be argued that consideration of all these issues leads to the conclusion that clausal predicates are a useful and reasonable tool for analyzing Korean sentence structures.

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