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In this paper, I examine the lexical choice of predicates appearing in Korean MSCs (Multiple Subject Constructions) in terms of aspect and agentivity. It has been generally assumed that only the stative predicates can appear in MSCs. Starting from the initial hypothesis that the acceptability of a MSC is subject to the aspect of its predicate, I show that it is not the aspect but the agentivity of the predicate that determines the acceptability of a MSC. To be more specific, I show that the more agentive the subject of the predicate in a MSC is, the more unacceptable the MSC is, and based on it, I propose the non-agentivity condition for MSCs. I also discuss why this kind of non-agentivity condition should hold for MSCs. My claim is that it can be derived from the deeper principles of grammar governing argument realization if we assume the split subjecthood hypothesis (Dixon 1994, etc.). Lastly, I examine the relationship between the non-agentivity condition and other semantic or pragmatic conditions proposed for MSCs such as the characterization condition (Jang 1998) and the newsworthiness condition (J. Yoon 2004).
