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Kang, Ducksoo. 2013. A Review on the Ambiguities of the Predicates in Yakut Language. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 38-4, 789-813. This paper tries to examine the syntactic property of the converb system. It finds inconsistency and contradiction in the traditional viewpoint on the converb. Especially, it points out that there is a misconception in perceiving the construction of the converb plus the predicate verb in the final place of a sentence. This paper introduces the construction of the compound predicate in the Yakut grammar. It shows how the fixed concept of the converb functions as a main verbal component in the compound predicate. This argument is justified by tree diagrams of Yakut sentences with two verbs in the final: the main verb plus the auxiliary instead the converb plus the main verb. It clears away the problem of the semantic ambiguities, unsolved by the traditional grammar. In conclusion, this paper suggests the revised category of the verbal suffixes of Yakut language. (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)