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In this paper, we briefly review the syntactic, morphological properties of '-ita' and '-issta' in Korean and analyze the underlying structure of them which are especially taking a constituent of 'clause + noun.' We treat both of them as verbs and show that the copular verb '-i' acts like a A-operator, sharing the same index as the noun right before the copular verb and activating a complex predicate. Based on Lasnik's(1992) assumption, we also show the possessive '-issta' assign the nominative marker to its complement and take an external argument as its subject like other verbs do.