Korean has three types of syntactic causatives, which vary depending on the case marking of a causee argument. A causee argument in Korean syntactic causative can be dative-marked, accusative-marked, or nominative-marked. This paper analyzes that a syntactic causative with a dative-marked causee argument corresponds to a let-causative, whose causer argument controls an agent PRO embedded within a lower vP that expresses a caused event. The accusative-marked and the nominative-marked causee pattern fall into make-causatives, whose causee argument merges as an agent argument of a lower vP. A causee argument gets accusative-marked by a higher v in matrix clause, undergoing covert raising to the Spec/vP position, or can it be nominative-marked inside a lower vP that expresses a caused event. The proposed analysis is supported by evidence from NPI-licensing, from Binding, and from scope interpretations involving quantifiers and focus delimiters.

• 박소영(부산대학교)