This article discusses special agentive transitive verbs in Japanese and Korean (such as noru/thata ‘board’) that yield concrete result states (which we call target states) that are under the agentive subject’s control throughout their duration. These verbs (continuous causative (CC) verbs) produce two distinct interpretations: accomplishment and target state readings. The latter surface with several distinct constructions: (i) the aspectual morphemes -te iru (Japanese) and -ko iss (Korean); (ii) the simple past tense; and (iii) nominalization. Intuitively, what the agentive subject does is one continuous act: (i) attaining the target state in question, and (ii) preserving it. The name “continuous causative verb” stems from the fact that the agentive subject continues to behave like an agent throughout the complex eventuality. However, when we utter a sentence containing a CC verb, we either refer to the accomplishment portion or the continuation of the target state, not both at the same time. Our formal proposal posits an aspect shift rule in the lexicon, which is responsible for the target state reading of each CC verb. The target state is indicated by a relation that holds between the agent and the theme entity, which in turn predicts that the agent is responsible for keeping the state intact. Positing a semantic rule in the lexicon to predict the aspect shift allows us to account for the two interpretations of CC verbs. The behavior of temporal adverbials also receives a natural account in our proposal.

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无强制性的方面转换：日语和韩语中的连续使动词

本文讨论了日文和韩文中的特殊和物动词及物动词（例如noru / thata'board '），这些动词可产生具体结果状态（我们称为目标状态），这些状态在整个过程中都处于受主语的控制之下。这些动词（连续使动词（CC）动词）产生两种截然不同的解释：成就和目标状态读数。后一种表面具有几种不同的构造：（i）方面语素-te iru（日语）和-ko iss（韩文）; （ii）简单过去时；（iii）名词化。直觉上，主体的行为是一种连续的行为：（i）达到所讨论的目标状态，并且（ii）保持目标状态。名称“连续使动词”源于以下事实，即在整个复杂的事件过程中，主语的主体继续表现为主体。但是，当我们说出包含CC动词的句子时，我们要么是指完成部分，要么是目标状态的延续，而不是同时提到两者。我们的正式提议在词典中提出了一个方面转换规则，该规则负责每个CC动词的目标状态读取。目标状态由代理与主题实体之间的关系指示，该关系又预测代理负责保持状态完整。在词典中放置语义规则以预测方面的变化，使我们能够解释CC动词的两种解释。时间状语的行为在我们的建议中也得到了自然的解释。