Type Construction of Nouns with the Verb ha- ‘do’

Type Construction of Nouns with the Verb ha- 'do' Seohyun Im� Chungmin Lee Dept. of Linguistics, Seoul National University� Dept. of Linguistics, Seoul National University Seoul, Korea� Seoul, Korea ish97@snu.ac.kr� clee@snu.ac.kr Abstract This paper aims to give an explanation of the combination of certain nouns and the verb ha- 'do'. Although the verb ha- 'do' normally takes an event type argument, it takes some substantival nouns such as paiolin 'violin', umsikcem 'restaurant', and so on. A substantival noun undergoes type shifting, because the governing verb ha- 'do' coerces an entity type noun to an event reading, taking missing information from the qualia of the entity type noun. In addition, some nouns like ppallay 'launch-3e are dot objects. The verb taking a dot object selects a proper type between multiple subtypes of the dot object. Type pumping operation makes that selection possible. 1. Introduction Much of the current research on sure 'do' in Japanese and ha- 'do' in Korean has been focused on its light verb function when it combines with verbal nouns since Grimshaw & Mester (1988). Although many papers have tried to uncover the nature of the Korean verb ha- 'do', they still have difficulty in defining the lexical semantic property of this verb. Recent studies of the verb ha- including Jun (2001), Im & Lee (2001) touch on the issues of substantival nouns with ha- 'do'. In this paper, we account for how the verb ha- ' do' is directly combined with substnatival nouns or complex type nouns. Specifically, we first list the nouns used together with the verb ha- 'do' in chapter 2. The nouns are classified into verbal nouns, substantival nouns, and dot objects. In chapter 4, we accounted for the combination of the verb ha-`do' with substantival nouns or complex type nouns. A substantival noun undergoes a type shifting operation by type coercion of the governing verb ha- 'do'. Type pumping operation makes possible that ha- selects a proper type out of multiple types of a dot object. Our explanation is based on the Generative Lexicon (GL) Theory (Pustejovsky, 1995, 2001). 2. Data In Chapter 2, we classify the kinds of nouns that combine with the verb ha- 'do'. Verbal nouns constitute the light verb construction with ha- 'do'. A verbal noun, basically, assigns thematic roles to its arguments. The words in (1) are typical verbal nouns. 103 (1) kensel `construction', phagoy 'destruction', ceycak 'production' , Secondly, a substantival noun such as paiolin 'violin' can be a complement of the verb ha- 'do' as in (2): (2) John-un paiolin-ul� ha-n-ta J-TOP violin-ACC do-PRES `John plays the violin' Although ha- 'do' normally takes an event type noun as its argument, some kinds of substantival nouns combine with ha- 'do' naturally. We present a part of group of substantival nouns combining with the verb ha- do' in (3): (3) a. yencwu 'play': cheyllo 'cello', phiano 'piano', tulem `drum',... b. chakyong 'wearing': mokkeli 'necklace', phalcci 'bracelet', meylppang suspenders',... c. wunyeng 'management': pyengwon 'hospital', kakey `store', kongcang `factory', d. …

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