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Hong, Ki-Sun. 2011. English Resultative Construction and Korean “key” Construction. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 36-4, 1143-1169. This paper compares the English resultative construction with the Korean “key” construction from a typological point of view. It argues that the Korean “key” construction denotes the result states which might be expected in the due process of an event, as well as the actually realized result states as the English resultative construction does. It further argues that the“key” expression constitutes an adjunct clause which might contain a pro, irrespective of the type distinctions generally assumed in previous research. This naturally accounts for its free position within a sentence, the occurrence of the honorific marker “si,” the discourse-oriented selection of the second subject and the so-called extension structures. This paper attempts to relate these differences to the typological characteristics of the two languages, such as the polysemous nature of Korean verbal suffixes, word order flexibility, syntax- or discourse-oriented anaphoric expressions and the repertoire of lexical items and exocentric structures that each language has. (Seoul National University)