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Keon Soo Lee and Seung-ju Yeo. 2000. Restructuring Infinitives in Korean. Studies in Modern Grammar 21, 21-48. This paper argues that Wurmbrand`s (1998) analysis of restructuring infinitives is on the right track. Her analysis denies the implicit assumption that all infinitives have the same syntactic structure, CP/TP. The auxiliary verb construction in Korean has an infinitival complement which behaves as if it lacks clausal nodes; they allow NP licensing and honorification both of which cannot hold if there is a clausal boundary in between. Furthermore, this transparency effect is correlated with the absence of tense morphemes and complementizer in the auxiliary verb construction. However, unlike Wurmbrand`s assumption that restructuring infinitives are bare-VP, we argue that the infinitive complement of the auxiliary verb construction in Korean is vP on the basis of case alternations and the imperfect control.
