A Fresh Look at the Ambiguity Puzzle of KO ISS Imperfective in Korean
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The ambiguity of KO ISS has been much discussed in the literature (see, e.g., works cited above). But it is yet to receive a satisfactory treatment on both empirical and theoretical grounds. It poses a challenge to Lee (2008), for instance: Lee claims that the imperfective marker always selects for a VP that takes an actor subject. As illustrated by (3), however, it is compatible with a sentence in which the subject nominal is not an actor; a snowman cannot put clothes on itself, at least in the world in which we live. So it has to be a passive recipient of an action.
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