Passive and Middle Constructions in Korean

Cho, Sungdai

doi:10.1075/kl.9.06sc

Article published In: Korean Linguistics
Vol. 9 (1998) ► pp.151–189

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Passive and Middle Constructions in Korean

Sungdai Cho | Stanford University

Published online: 1 January 1998

https://doi.org/10.1075/kl.9.06sc

In this paper, I have shown evidence that the potential Korean middle construction (K2) is a passive, adducing five pieces of evidence: (1) spontaneity, (2) the existence of an agent, (3) non-stative, (4) non-generic, and (5) no requirement of adverb modification. It will also be classified under a morphological passive, since it carries the same morpheme as the suffixal passive and has properties of the canonical passive.

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