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This paper proposes an analysis of Korean lexical and syntactic causatives, focusing on the issue of their semantic interpretations. This paper claims that lexical causatives represent one events by being subject to event coidentification(Levin & Rappaport 1999) of sub-events, whereas syntactic causatives represent two individual events. These semantic characteristics directly correspond to distinct syntactic structures of those types of causatives; lexical causatives includes one phasal vP in their syntactic derivations, while syntactic causatives are structured having two phasal vPs. The functional head v, as a phasal head(Chomsky 2001), semantically represents the existence of a grammatical event(Harley 1995, Embick 2004, Borer 2005, etc.). The proposed analysis overcomes shortcomings of the previous analyses, which have been heavily relied on the distinction of direct and indirect causation(Shibatani 1973, Yang 1976, Nam & Ko 1985, etc.). According to the definitions of direct causation versus indirect causation, both lexical and syntactic causatives should be deemed to have an identical semantic interpretation, namely a direct causative meaning, when combined with unaccusative verb roots. However, a significant semantic contrast exists in such a case, especially with respect to whether a causing and a caused sub-event are divisible in terms of time and space. The proposed analysis, which distinguishes lexical from syntactic causatives in terms of a number of events, directly accounts for the contrast.
