Resumen de A Unified analysis of existentials and psych-constructions in Korean as pseudo-transitives

Kyumin Kim

• This paper compares the transitivity of existential and psych-constructions in Korean to canonical transitives and intransitives. It is shown that these constructions are neither transitives nor intransitives. This paper argues that they can be unified as pseudo-transitives (i.e., somewhere between transitives and intransitives) and provides a structural analysis for pseudo-transitives using Appl. Pseudo-transitives provide support for the theory that transitivity is a continuum, and not categorical (Hopper & Thompson 1980).