UC Berkeley

This work will focus on analyzing the Korean verb, mac ‘to be hit’, which is the suppletive passive form of ttayli ‘to hit’, within the framework of Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz 1993). In addition, this work will demonstrate the morphology-syntax mismatch between mac and the usual i/hi/li/ki-type of passive form used in Korean: mac and the i/hi/li/ki-type of passive form show the same syntactic patterns, whereas they are realized in distinct morphological structures. With the goal of explaining this mismatch, we will provide a postsyntactic morphological operation known as fusion proposed by Halle & Marantz (1993, 1994).