Chapter 1.Introduction
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1.1Korean case: Where to start
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1.2A new-old perspective: Case and conceptual semantics
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1.3Case and grammatical functions
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1.4A summary of chapters
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Chapter 2.An overview of Cognitive Grammar
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2.1Motivation
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2.2Foundational CG notions
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2.2.1Symbolic assemblies
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2.2.2Construal
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2.3Technical CG notions
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2.3.1Correspondence and elaboration
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2.3.2Profile determinants and complements
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2.3.3Grounding
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2.4Reference point
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2.4.1Reference point in CG
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2.4.2Applications of reference point
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2.5Conclusion
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Chapter 3.Multiple nominative constructions
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3.1Introduction
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3.2Properties of MNCs
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3.3Properties of the NPs in MNCs
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3.4A clause-level subject as a reference point subject
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3.5A CG-based analysis of Korean MNCs
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3.5.1The notion of subject elaborated
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3.5.2Reference point subject creation
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3.5.3Metonymy and domain highlighting
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3.6Double subject constructions proper versus complex predicate constructions
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3.7Topic-marked MNCs
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3.8Conclusion
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Chapter 4.Multiple accusative constructions
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4.1Introduction
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4.2Grammar as a metonymic process
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4.2.1Profile–active zone discrepancy
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4.2.2Multiple nominative constructions in Japanese and Korean
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4.3The phenomenon: Korean MACs
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4.3.1The data
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4.3.2The problems and the proposal
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4.4Five characteristics of MACs
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4.4.1Unlimited number of accusative-marked NPs
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4.4.2The non-constituent nature of the NPs in MACs
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4.4.3The property of the outer NPs
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4.4.4The relational property of NP2 in IAP
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4.4.5The ordering of the NPs
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4.5Commonalities and differences among MACs
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4.5.1Reference point and the three types of MACs
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4.5.2Adverbial case-marking
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4.5.3Floated quantifiers
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4.6Technical analyses
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4.7Conclusion
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Chapter 5.Non-nominative subjects and case stacking
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5.1Introduction
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5.2The subject properties and research questions
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5.2.1Subject properties of non-nominative-marked nominals
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5.2.2Honorific agreement, case alternation, and case stacking
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5.2.3Some questions concerning Korean non-nominative subject constructions
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5.3BE possession
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5.4Analysis: Reference point, locative schema, and blending
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5.4.1Subject honorification
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5.4.2Case alternation
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5.4.3Case stacking
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5.4.4Subject properties revisited
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5.5Conclusion
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Chapter 6.Case-marked adverbials
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6.1Overview and proposal
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6.2Previous proposals
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6.3Setting, location, and reference point
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6.3.1Setting and location
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6.3.2Setting subject
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6.3.3Reference point
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6.4Animacy and the predicate’s aspectual properties
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6.5Construals
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6.5.1Perfective vs. imperfective verbs
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6.5.2The construals of adverbials with inanimate subjects
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6.5.3CG illustrations of setting subject constructions
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6.5.4A CG illustration of location object constructions
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6.6The construals of animate subjects
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6.7Conclusion
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Chapter 7.Case and verbal nouns
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7.1Introduction
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7.2Issues on verbal nouns
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7.2.1Four existing approaches to verbal nouns
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7.2.2Verbal nouns in light verb constructions
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7.3The base content of verbal nouns
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7.4Indirect nominal grounding
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7.5Common noun uses of verbal nouns
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7.6Verbal nouns in MACs
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7.7Verbal nouns in the light verb construction
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7.8Conclusion
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Chapter 8.Subject-to-object raising
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8.1Introduction
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8.2Issues
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8.2.1Raising or Base-generation
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8.2.2MNC-based generation
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8.2.3Processing-based analysis
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8.3SOR in CG
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8.3.1Raising in CG
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8.3.2SOR and MNC
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8.3.3Interpretive properties redux
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8.4SOR and related constructions
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8.5Conclusion
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Chapter 9.Nominative-nominative stacking
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9.1Introduction
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9.2Previous research and criticism: Cho and Sells (1995) and Sells (1995a)
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9.3Previous research and criticism: Yoon (2005)
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9.3.1Subject of the become verb
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9.3.2Floated quantifiers
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9.3.3MNCs
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9.3.4Tough construction
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9.3.5Ablative Subject Construction
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9.3.6Case stacking
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9.3.7Not enough evidence for -kkeyse as a structural case marker
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9.4Previous research and criticism: Levin (2017)
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9.4.1On overgeneration
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9.4.2
-kkeyse as a structural case marker
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9.4.3Additional comments on the Revised Dependent Case model
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9.5On the morpho-syntactic status of -kkeyse
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9.5.1Icelandic structural/lexical case
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9.5.2On the tests for structural/lexical case status
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9.6CG analysis
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9.6.1NNS with -kkeyse
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9.6.2
-kkeyse with other affixes
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9.6.3Case dropping
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9.7Conclusion
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