This paper offers a formal account for the give-type benefactive constructions involving -cwu in Korean and -age in Japanese. Inspired by Shibatani’s (Jpn Korean Linguist 4:39–74, 1994; in: Shibatani and Thompson (eds) Grammatical constructions: their form and meaning, Clarendon Press, Oxford, pp 157–194, 1996) observation that a dative NP in a benefactive sentence is associated with the notion of possession, we propose an account based on lexical decomposition, which has been widely adopted for analyzing ditransitives and some complex predicates in the recent literature. We argue that a dative NP is not a beneficiary but rather a possessor, whose apparent ‘beneficiary’ interpretation is derived via pragmatic inferences, and that a beneficiary role is always encoded in the form of an implicit argument of the benefactive auxiliary -cwu/-age. The proposed analysis accounts for the puzzling distributional patterns of dative arguments in the benefactive construction that cannot be easily captured by a simple ‘benefactive-as-applicative’ analysis. Furthermore, our investigation of the benefactive meaning reveals that it belongs to the not-at-issue tier of meaning in the multi-dimensional semantics, and that the lack of entailment of the benefactive meaning is better analyzed by appealing to generic quantification.

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韩语和日语的赠予型受益人构造

本文提供了一个正式的账户给予型benefactive建设涉及- CWU韩国和-年龄用日语。受到Shibatani的启发（Jpn Korean Linguist 4：39–74，1994; in：Shibatani and Thompson（eds）语法结构：其形式和含义，Clarendon Press，牛津，第157–194页，1996年）观察到：受益句与占有概念相关，我们提出一个基于词法分解的解释，在最近的文献中已被广泛用于分析双及物和一些复杂的谓词。我们认为，亲属NP不是受益人，而是拥有者，其明显的“受益人”解释是通过务实的推论得出的，并且受益人的角色始终以隐含的辅助受益人-cwu /-的形式编码年龄。所提出的分析考虑了受益结构中和解参数的令人困惑的分布模式，而简单的“作为应用的受益”分析无法轻易地捕捉到这些模式。此外，我们对受益人意义的研究表明，它属于多维语义中的非实质意义层，并且通过诉诸通用量化可以更好地分析受益人意义的不足。