This paper newly notes that a repeated verbal complex in Korean can have a polarity and observes its distributional properties. In particular, this paper closely examines what kind of structure this complex will have when it displays aspects of negative polarity item (NPI). For this purpose, this paper compares two structures, head-final and head-initial, and advocates the latter, thereby leading to the claim that Korean is underlyingly head-initial.

• 이정식(원광대학교) | Jeong Shik Le