Hee-Rahk Chae. 2000. Complements vs. Adjuncts (in Korean). Studies in Modern Grammar 19, 69-85. For a correct analysis of many grammatical phenomena, we have to figure out whether a given phrase is a complement or an adjunct of the head concerned. There are many criteria/tests to be used in determining the identity of the phrase. However, there are no syntactic criteria to rely on in Korean, which is a pro-drop language. We have only some semantic criteria, which are not always helpful in analyzing actual data. In the face of these difficulties, we propose a set of heuristic assumptions, which we think facilitate the distinction between complements and adjuncts. We will show our point with reference to the analyses of the -(u)lo and -ey-marked expressions, and the -ul/lul-marked adverbial nominals in Korean.

Hee-Rahk Chae. 1999. A Definition and Classification of Locomotion Verbs. Studies in Modern Grammar 15, 79-100. In this paper, we will, firstly, examine morphological, syntactic and semantic issues related to the analysis of locomotion verb constructions. Secondly, after showing that locomotion verbs cannot be properly defined syntactically on the basis of the complements they take, we will provide a semantic definition of them and then a new classification of them. The classification will be based on a couple of parameters: whether the "Figure (moving entity)" is a subject or an object, and whether it is an Agent or not. In providing the definition and classification, we will make it clear that locomotion verbs are different from "motion verbs." In addition, we will factor out a group of "pseudo-locomotion verbs" from the group of locomotion verbs in the traditional sense. Lastly, we will clarify the relationship between locomotion verbs and the -le complement, which is assumed to uniquely characterize the Korean locomotion verbs in syntactic approaches. We will show that there are two groups of verbs which can take the complement (one is a subgroup of locomotion verbs and the other is a group of non-locomotion verbs), and that the complement shows different properties in each of the two groups.