Verb Raising in Korean Redux

Abstract

It has been a standard assumption that adverbials are uniformly left adjoined in a strict head final language. I, however, suggest that monosyllabic manner adverbs and the negation ani ‘not’ are right adjoined, thus lending strong support to the overt verb raising in Korean. I also suggest that clausal typing is the driving force par excellence for the overt verb raising in Korean, where clauses are typed with the sentence final verbal morphology. The present proposal has a nontrivial theoretical implication for languages typologically akin to Korean where verbal morphology determines clause types.