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Kabata, Kaori & Lee, Jeonghwa. 2010. A Corpus-based Comparative Study of Completives in Japanese and Korean. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 35-3, 837-862. Data from written and spoken corpus was analyzed to examine the synchronic usage patterns of completives in Japanese and Korean. Taking a panchronic approach, the present study aimed to determine how the similarities and differences of the synchronic behaviors of completives in the two languages might be attributable to the similarities or differences of their grammaticalization paths. Do the completives with similar lexical sources exhibit similar usages patterns between the two languages, or do they demonstrate some differences, and if they do, what factors might underlie such differences? The results indicated that the completive auxiliaries of the two languages exhibit a striking parallelism, but that they are at different stages of grammaticalization. Some discrepancies were also found between the usage patterns and semantic distributions discussed in the previous literature. (University of Alberta, The Cyber University of Korea, University of California, Berkeley)