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The direct object in the overt ACC-ACC sequence of Korean multiple accusative constructions (MACs) cannot undergo case-drop. Nevertheless, why the caseless direct object can appear in the MAC context when it forms an idiom with its following verb is because it undergoes noun incorporation (NI). Mapudungun and Chichewa, which are both a head-initial language, provide cross-linguistic evidence for NI through head movement (Baker, 1988, 2009). The morphological causative verbs such as os-pes-ki ‘clothes-take-off-CAUSE’ meaning ‘to dismiss’ and yes/mwul mek-i ‘taffy/water eat-CAUSE’ meaning ‘to deceive (someone)’ are such a case. However, the caseless verbal noun like ceychwul in ceychwul-ha ‘to submit’ is always allowed in the MAC context. This is because the bare verbal noun obligatorily undergoes NI to the light verb on v. Thus, in Korean, the additional postulation of NI of the caseless idiomatic object or verbal noun in MAC contexts is unnecessary since the NI may well be explained through a single operation known as successive head movement.
